The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 146

As he proceeded, he saw farther on five hundred thieves who had met destruction; farther on yet, two hundred and fifty; and so on until finally he came upon two.

Who acts: teacher, hundred thieves · What happens: proceed, see, meet, come · To what, where: hundred thieves, destruction, two

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 (teacher, hundred thieves), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 proceeded	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proceeded	nsubj
3	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proceeded	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 saw	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 thieves	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thieves	nummod
11	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 met	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 met	aux
14	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thieves	acl:relcl
15	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 farther	punct
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 saw	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 yet	case
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 hundred	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 yet	punct
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	compound
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 farther	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fifty	cc
24	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 on	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 on	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 on	advmod
28	on	on	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
30	finally	finally	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 on	advcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 two	case
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	teacher					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	teacher		hundred thieves	yet	far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	meet	past · perfect	hundred thieves	destruction				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-Agent
4	come	past	teacher		two		finally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon two=Location

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 146

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 146