The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 81

And he wrought such havoc among them that the snakes in Pātāla were nigh unto death from sheer fright, and their females miscarried, and the whole race of the snakes was nigh unto utter destruction.

Who acts: Griffin, snakes, females, whole race · What happens: wrought, be, miscarry, race · To what, where: such havoc, sheer fright

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, snakes, females, whole race), 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	_	3 wrought	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrought	nsubj
3	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 havoc	amod
5	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrought	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrought	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 nigh	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snakes	det
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 nigh	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Pātāla	case
12	Pātāla	Pātāla	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 snakes	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nigh	cop
14	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrought	advcl
15	unto	unto	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nigh	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 fright	case
18	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fright	compound
19	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nigh	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 miscarried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 miscarried	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 females	nmod:poss
23	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 miscarried	nsubj
24	miscarried	miscarry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wrought	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nigh	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 nigh	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 race	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 race	amod
29	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nigh	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 snakes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 snakes	det
32	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 race	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 nigh	cop
34	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 miscarried	conj
35	unto	unto	ADP	_	37 destruction	case
36	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 destruction	amod
37	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nigh	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrought	past	Griffin	such havoc		among snakes = snake	tree rules
2	is	past	the snakes in Pātāla		sheer fright	unto death; nigh property	tree rules
3	miscarry	participle	snakes's females				tree rules
4	is	past	the whole race of the snakes			unto utter destruction; nigh property	tree rules
5	race		the snakes				nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 81

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 81