The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 47
But his teeth had got to the point where they were ready to drop, and his jaws were smeared with blood.
Who acts: teeth · What happens: get, be, drop, smear · To what, where: jaws
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 (teeth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 point | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 point | det |
| 8 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 ready | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | cop |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 point | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drop | mark |
| 14 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smeared | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smeared | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 smeared | aux:pass |
| 20 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Tortoise's teeth | to the point result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to point=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | teeth = tooth | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | to-infinitive | teeth = tooth not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | smear | past · passive | Tortoise's jaws | with blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=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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