The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 73
And laying hold of his feet, they dragged him and threw him back of the moat.
Who acts: feet · What happens: lay, drag, throw, hold · To what, where: hold, king, feet
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 (feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 laying | cc |
| 2 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 dragged | advcl |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laying | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 laying | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dragged | nsubj |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dragged | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dragged | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 threw | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 moat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moat | det |
| 17 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | gerund | feet = foot not said here | hold of king's feet | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | feet = foot | king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | feet = foot not said here | king | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | king's feet | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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