The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 165
And this craving has arisen within me: I desire 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: I · What happens: arise, 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 (I), 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 arisen | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 craving | det |
| 3 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arisen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arisen | aux |
| 5 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 arisen | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 desire | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 desire | nsubj |
| 10 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arisen | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 sunrise | case |
| 12 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desire | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 desire | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 16 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 army | amod |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 army | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 drawn | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clad | punct |
| 21 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 army | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 armor | case |
| 23 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clad | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 standing | punct |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 clad | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 28 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 place | amod |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 standing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 drink | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drink | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 drink | mark |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 desire | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rinsings | det |
| 35 | rinsings | rinsing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 drink | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 swords | case |
| 37 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rinsings | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arisen | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 arisen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | present · perfect · passive | this craving | within me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | I | sunrise | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I 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 | I not said here | armor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | I not said here | a pleasant place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 7 | drink | to-infinitive | I 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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