The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 112
Now a second pack of five hundred thieves captured the first pack of thieves.
Who acts: second pack · What happens: capture · To what, where: first pack
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 (second pack), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 captured | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pack | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pack | amod |
| 4 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captured | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thieves | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thieves | nummod |
| 8 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pack | nmod |
| 9 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pack | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 pack | amod |
| 12 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captured | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thieves | case |
| 14 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pack | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | a second pack of hundred thieves | the first pack of thieves | now | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=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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