The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 131
The man sitting by the spoils reflected: “When this fellow returns, this wealth will have to be divided into two portions.
Who acts: man, fellow · What happens: sit, spoil, reflect, return, divide · To what, where: man, two portions
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 (man, fellow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoils | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spoils | det |
| 6 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | advcl |
| 7 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spoils | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 10 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 returns | mark |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fellow | det |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returns | nsubj |
| 13 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returns | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 wealth | det |
| 16 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 divided | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 divided | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 divided | aux:pass |
| 21 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 portions | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 portions | nummod |
| 24 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 divided | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the man not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spoil | present | the man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reflect | participle | the man not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | return in a quote | present | this fellow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | divide in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the man | two portions | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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