The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 126
Continuing in this wise, they killed each other off until there were only two men left.
Who acts: Riches, two men · What happens: continue, kill, be, leave · To what, where: wise, each, two men
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, two men), 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 | Continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 killed | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wise | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wise | nsubj |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Continuing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Continuing | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | nsubj |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 killed | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 each | compound:prt |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 were | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 two | advmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 men | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | gerund | Riches = rich not said here | wise this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | Riches = rich | each | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | two men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | two men not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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