The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 163
And this was her craving: She desired at sunrise to see a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and to drink the rinsings of swords.
Who acts: this, Kosala · What happens: be, desire, see, draw up, clad, stand · To what, where: craving, fourfold army, armor, pleasant place, rinsings, swords
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 (this, Kosala), 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 | _ | 5 craving | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 craving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 craving | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 craving | nmod:poss |
| 5 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 desired | punct |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 desired | nsubj |
| 8 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 craving | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sunrise | case |
| 10 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 desired | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desired | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 army | det |
| 14 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 army | amod |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 army | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 drawn | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clad | punct |
| 19 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 army | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 armor | case |
| 21 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clad | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 standing | punct |
| 23 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 clad | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 drink | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drink | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 drink | mark |
| 31 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rinsings | det |
| 33 | rinsings | rinsing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 drink | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 swords | case |
| 35 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rinsings | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 craving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | Kosala's craving | Kosala nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | desire | past | Kosala | Kosala's craving not said here | sunrise | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot craving=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Kosala not said here | a fourfold army | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | draw up | participle | a fourfold army not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | clad | participle | Kosala not said here | armor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | Kosala not said here | a pleasant place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 7 | drink | to-infinitive | Kosala not said here | the rinsings of swords | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rinsing=Patient | ||||
| 8 | rinse | swords | nom rinsing «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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