The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 128
Now those two men, having gotten away with the spoils by a ruse, hid the spoils in a thicket near a certain village.
Who acts: two men · What happens: get away, spoil, hide · To what, where: thicket
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 gotten | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 men | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gotten | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gotten | aux |
| 7 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 gotten | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoils | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spoils | det |
| 11 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gotten | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 ruse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ruse | det |
| 14 | ruse | ruse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoils | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gotten | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spoils | det |
| 18 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hid | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 thicket | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thicket | det |
| 21 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoils | obl |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 village | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 village | det |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 village | amod |
| 25 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thicket | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | gerund · perfect | that two men | now | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | spoil | present | that two men not said here | by a ruse | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | that two men not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spoil | present | that two men not said here | a thicket near a certain village | 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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