The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 129
One sat guarding the spoils with sword in hand; the other, having procured rice, entered the village to have some porridge cooked.
Who acts: One · What happens: sit, guard, spoil, have, procure, enter · To what, where: procured rice, village, porridge
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spoils | det |
| 5 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 guarding | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoils | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 other | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 having | punct |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 15 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rice | amod |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 having | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 entered | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 porridge | det |
| 24 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 porridge | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | guard | gerund | One not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spoil | present | One not said here | with sword in hand | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | One not said here | procured rice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | ||||
| 5 | procure | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | enter | past | One not said here | the village | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Destination | ||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | One not said here | some porridge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient | ||||
| 8 | cook | participle | some porridge not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «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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