The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 79

And straightway their enemy the griffin, relying on the boon which he had obtained from Vishnu, swooped down on them and began to devour them.

Who acts: griffin, straightway enemy · What happens: enemy, rely, obtain, swoop down, begin, devour · To what, where: boon, Vishnu, snakes

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, straightway enemy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 enemy	cc
2	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 enemy	amod
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 enemy	nmod:poss
4	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swooped	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 griffin	det
6	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enemy	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 relying	punct
8	relying	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 enemy	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 boon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boon	det
11	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 relying	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 obtained	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 obtained	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 obtained	aux
15	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 boon	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Vishnu	case
17	Vishnu	Vishnu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 obtained	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 enemy	punct
19	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 swooped	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swooped	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 swooped	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 devour	mark
26	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 devour	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 swooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enemy		the griffin			snakes = snake nmod:poss	tree rules
2	rely	gerund	snakes's straightway enemy not said here			on the boon	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on boon=Theme
3	obtain	past · perfect · passive		the boon	Vishnu	Griffin nsubj	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from vishnu=Source
4	swoop down	past	snakes's straightway enemy			on snakes = snake	tree rules
5	begin	past	snakes's straightway enemy not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	devour	to-infinitive	snakes's straightway enemy not said here	snakes = snake			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 79