The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 2
And he restored to him the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of his fathers, and gave him his daughter in marriage.
Who acts: father · What happens: restore, give · To what, where: army, Dīghāvu, daughter, marriage
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 3 restored | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 restored | nsubj |
| 3 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 restored | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restored | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 vehicles | cc |
| 9 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 army | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 territory | cc |
| 11 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vehicles | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 treasuries | cc |
| 13 | treasuries | treasury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 vehicles | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 storehouses | cc |
| 15 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 vehicles | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fathers | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 storehouses | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 restored | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | iobj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 marriage | case |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past | father | the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of father's fathers | Dīghāvu | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent army=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | father not said here | father's daughter | marriage | father iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme |
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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