The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 60
He had a hundred thousand pieces of money laid near each of the elephant’s four feet, near his trunk, and near his tail.
Who acts: king, money · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: thousand pieces, four feet, trunk
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 (king, money), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pieces | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | compound |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pieces | nummod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 money | acl |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 each | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 feet | det |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 elephant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elephant | det |
| 14 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 elephant | case |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laid | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trunk | punct |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 trunk | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 21 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tail | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tail | cc |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 tail | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tail | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a thousand pieces of money | king's tail conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay | participle | money not said here | the elephant's four feet | king's trunk | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near trunk=Destination |
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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