The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

Instantly from the Great Waveless Hell flames of fire shot forth, enveloped that man, that betrayer of friends, wrapping him, as it were, in a blanket proper for death and laid hold of him.

Who acts: four, fire · What happens: shoot, envelop, wrap, be, lay, flame · To what, where: Great Hell flames, man, blanket, hold

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four, fire), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	10 shot	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	7 flames	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flames	det
4	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flames	amod
5	Waveless	Waveless	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hell	compound
6	Hell	Hell	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flames	compound
7	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shot	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fire	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flames	nmod
10	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 shot	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enveloped	punct
13	enveloped	envelop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shot	conj
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enveloped	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 betrayer	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 betrayer	det
18	betrayer	betrayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 friends	case
20	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 betrayer	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wrapping	punct
22	wrapping	wrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 enveloped	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wrapping	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 blanket	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 blanket	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 blanket	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 blanket	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 blanket	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 blanket	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 blanket	det
31	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enveloped	obl
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 blanket	amod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 death	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 proper	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laid	cc
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 enveloped	conj
37	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hold	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	past				the Great Hell flames of fire	forth, instantly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from flame=Initial_Location
2	envelop	past		that man				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme
3	wrap	gerund			man			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
4	is	past	four			a blanket		tree rules
5	lay	past		hold of man				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	flame		fire					nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent
7	hold			man				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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 13