The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 166
“Whence are we, wretched folk, to obtain a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and the rinsings of swords?”
Who acts: we · What happens: be, obtain, draw up, clad, stand, rinse · To what, where: we, fourfold army, armor, pleasant place, 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 (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtain | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 we | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 we | cop |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 obtain | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 6 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 folk | amod |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 we | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtain | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obtain | mark |
| 10 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 army | det |
| 12 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 army | amod |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtain | obj |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 army | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 drawn | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clad | punct |
| 17 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 army | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 armor | case |
| 19 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clad | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 clad | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rinsings | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rinsings | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rinsings | det |
| 29 | rinsings | rinsing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 obtain | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 swords | case |
| 31 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rinsings | nmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtain | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | wretched folk conj; whence property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obtain in a quote | to-infinitive | we | a fourfold army | the rinsings of swords obl | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw up in a quote | participle | a fourfold army not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | clad in a quote | participle | we not said here | armor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand in a quote | gerund | we not said here | a pleasant place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 6 | rinse in a quote | 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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