The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
They fed him also with five hundred morsels of food.
Who acts: commands · What happens: feed · To what, where: Elephant
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 (commands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fed | obj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 fed | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 morsels | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morsels | nummod |
| 8 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 food | case |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morsels | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | commands = command | Elephant | with hundred morsels of food | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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