The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

As for the carpenters, when it was time to eat, each one of them gave the elephant a morsel of food; thus in all they gave him five hundred morsels of food.

Who acts: cord, one, carpenters · What happens: be, eat, give · To what, where: time, morsel, elephant, hundred morsels

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cord, one, carpenters), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 carpenters	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 carpenters	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carpenters	det
4	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 time	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 time	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	cop
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 time	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 morsel	det
21	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 food	case
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 morsel	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
25	thus	thus	ADV	_	29 gave	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 thus	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hundred	compound
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 morsels	nummod
33	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gave	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 food	case
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 morsels	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cord	time			tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	each one of carpenters not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	each one of carpenters	a morsel of food	the elephant	as the carpenters	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient morsel=Theme
4	give	past	carpenters = carpenter	hundred morsels of food	Elephant	thus property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient morsel=Theme

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 tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 37