The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 161

By employing wrong means, for no reason at all, seeking gain for themselves, these thieves, like our teacher, must all have come to a fearful end indeed!”

Who acts: employing, reason · What happens: employ, mean, seek, come · To what, where: reason, all, fearful end · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (employing, reason), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 employing	mark
2	employing	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 employing	xcomp
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 reason	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeking	punct
12	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 reason	acl
13	gain	again	ADV	_	12 seeking	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 seeking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thieves	punct
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 thieves	det
18	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reason	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 teacher	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 teacher	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 teacher	nmod:poss
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thieves	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 reason	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 end	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 end	det
30	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 end	amod
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	gerund					wrong property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	employing	no reason and this thieves like our teacher	all			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
3	seek	gerund	no reason and this thieves like our teacher not said here			again	for besides = beside	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for themselves=Theme
4	come	must · perfect	employing not said here			to a fearful end	all, indeed property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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 161

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 161