The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 121
At this the thieves became enraged and said: “Oh, you rascally Brahman!
Who acts: thieves · What happens: become, enrage, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thieves | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brahman | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brahman | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 Brahman | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 Brahman | nsubj |
| 14 | rascally | rascally | ADV | _ | 15 Brahman | advmod |
| 15 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the thieves at this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enrage | participle | the thieves at this not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the thieves at this not said here | Brahman you ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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