The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 58
They bound the Great Being, guiltless as he was, and started to conduct him to the place of execution, beating him at every cross-roads.
Who acts: bodies, man · What happens: bind, be, start, conduct, beat · To what, where: man, place, cross-roads
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 (bodies, man), 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 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guiltless | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guiltless | amod |
| 5 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 guiltless | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guiltless | punct |
| 7 | guiltless | guiltless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bound | conj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 guiltless | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bound | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 conduct | mark |
| 15 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conduct | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conduct | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 execution | case |
| 21 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beating | punct |
| 23 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 conduct | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beating | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 cross-roads | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 cross-roads | det |
| 27 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beating | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | bodies = body | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | bodies = body not said here | guiltless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | past | bodies = body not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | conduct | to-infinitive | bodies = body not said here | man | the place of execution | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 6 | beat | gerund | bodies = body not said here | man | every cross-roads | tree rules |
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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