The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 16
He has robbed us of army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses.
What happens: rob · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 robbed | aux |
| 3 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 robbed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 army | case |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vehicles | cc |
| 8 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 army | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 territory | cc |
| 10 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vehicles | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 treasuries | cc |
| 12 | treasuries | treasury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 vehicles | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 storehouses | cc |
| 14 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 vehicles | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 robbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | present · perfect · passive | king | of army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses; us obj | tree rules |
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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