The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 151
As he proceeded, he saw the footprints of the two thieves who had entered the thicket with the spoils.
Who acts: companion, two thieves · What happens: proceed, see, enter, spoil · To what, where: footprints, 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 (companion, two 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 footprints | det |
| 8 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thieves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thieves | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thieves | nummod |
| 12 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 footprints | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entered | aux |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thieves | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thicket | det |
| 17 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 spoils | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spoils | det |
| 20 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 entered | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | companion | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | companion | the footprints of the two thieves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footprint=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | past · perfect | the two thieves | the thicket | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thicket=Destination | ||||
| 4 | spoil | present | the two thieves not said here | 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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