The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 87

These heaps of bones are the bones of the snakes which the griffin has eaten, and which, gradually accumulating, have come to look like the peak of a mountain.

Who acts: heaps, bones · What happens: be, eat, accumulate, come, look · To what, where: bones, 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 (heaps, bones), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 heaps	det
2	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bones	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bones	case
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heaps	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bones	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bones	det
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 snakes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snakes	det
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bones	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 eaten	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 griffin	det
13	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 snakes	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 which	punct
20	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	21 accumulating	advmod
21	accumulating	accumulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 which	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 which	punct
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bones	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	xcomp
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 peak	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 peak	det
29	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mountain	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 peak	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this heaps of bones	the bones	of the snakes	tree rules
2	eat	present · perfect · passive		the snakes	the griffin nsubj:pass	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	accumulate	gerund	the bones not said here		gradually property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present · perfect	the bones			tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	the bones not said here		like the peak of a mountain	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 87