The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 80
The elephant, eaten up by maggots, maddened with pain, overcome with thirst, wandered about seeking water to drink.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: eat up, madden, overcome, wander, seek, drink · To what, where: maggots
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 (elephant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 eaten | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 maggots | case |
| 7 | maggots | maggot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eaten | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 maddened | punct |
| 9 | maddened | madden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maggots | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pain | case |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maddened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 13 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 thirst | case |
| 15 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wandered | punct |
| 17 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wandered | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 drink | mark |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wandered | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | participle | the elephant | by maggots | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | madden | participle | maggots not said here | with pain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | overcome | infinitive | with thirst | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | wander | past | about seeking water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about water=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | seek | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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