The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 110
The thieves gathered up that wealth, wrapped it in folds of their upper garments, and went their way.
Who acts: thieves · What happens: gather up, wrap, go · To what, where: wealth, folds, way
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves), 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 thieves | det |
| 2 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 wealth | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wealth | det |
| 6 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrapped | punct |
| 8 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wrapped | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 folds | case |
| 11 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrapped | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 garments | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 garments | nmod:poss |
| 14 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 garments | amod |
| 15 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 folds | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past | the thieves | that wealth | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrap | past | the thieves not said here | wealth | folds of Thieves's upper garments | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fold=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the thieves not said here | Thieves's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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