The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 125
Again dividing into two packs, they fought with each other until one pack of two hundred and fifty had killed the other.
Who acts: Riches · What happens: divide, fight, kill · To what, where: two packs, one 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 (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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 dividing | advmod |
| 2 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fought | advcl |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 packs | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 packs | nummod |
| 5 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dividing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dividing | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 fought | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 killed | mark |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pack | nummod |
| 14 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hundred | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pack | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fifty | cc |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | conj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fought | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 killed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | gerund | Riches = rich not said here | two packs | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fight | past | Riches = rich | with each | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | one pack of two hundred | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer other=Result |
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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