The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 56

Without so much as giving that false ascetic, that bird of evil omen, a chance to look at me, take that fellow, bind his arms behind his back, conduct him out of the city, beating him at every cross-roads, cut off his head in the place of execution, and impale his body on a stake!”

Who acts: cross-roads · What happens: give, look, take, bind, conduct, beat · To what, where: false ascetic, fellow, arms, back, ascetic, city

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cross-roads), 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	Without	without	ADP	_	3 much	case
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 much	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ascetic	mark
7	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ascetic	amod
8	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giving	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bird	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascetic	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 omen	case
13	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 omen	amod
14	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chance	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chance	det
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascetic	appos
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 chance	acl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 look	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	conj
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 fellow	det
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bind	punct
27	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bind	obj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bind	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 conduct	punct
34	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 conduct	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 city	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 city	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 city	det
39	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 conduct	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 beating	punct
41	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 conduct	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 beating	obj
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 cross-roads	case
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 cross-roads	det
45	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 beating	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cut	punct
47	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 cross-roads	acl
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 cut	compound:prt
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 head	nmod:poss
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cut	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 place	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 place	det
53	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cut	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 execution	case
55	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 place	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 impale	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 impale	cc
58	impale	impale	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	conj
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 body	nmod:poss
60	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 impale	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 stake	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 stake	det
63	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 impale	obl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 ascetic	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 ascetic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		false ascetic				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive					at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
3	take	infinitive			that fellow			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fellow=Destination
4	bind	infinitive		ascetic's arms		ascetic's back		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
5	conduct	infinitive		ascetic		the city		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out city=Destination
6	beat	gerund		ascetic		every cross-roads		tree rules
7	cut off	participle	every cross-roads not said here	ascetic's head		the place of execution		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
8	impale	infinitive		ascetic's body		a stake		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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 4, sentence 56