The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 124
Then the second pack pursued the first pack hotly, fought with; them, killed every man of them, and took the spoils.
Who acts: second pack, Riches · What happens: pursue, fight, kill, take, spoil · To what, where: first pack, man
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, Riches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pursued | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pack | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pack | amod |
| 4 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pursued | nsubj |
| 5 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pack | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 pack | amod |
| 8 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pursued | obj |
| 9 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 5 pursued | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursued | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fought | case |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 them | punct |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursued | conj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursued | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spoils | det |
| 25 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the second pack | the first pack | then | hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | ||
| 2 | fight | past | the second pack not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | Riches = rich | every man of men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the second pack not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | spoil | present | the second pack not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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