The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
When the sun had set, the thieves bound the Brahman and laid him down.
Who acts: thieves · What happens: set, bind, lay down · To what, where: sun, Brahman
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bound | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thieves | det |
| 8 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bound | nsubj |
| 9 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Brahman | det |
| 11 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bound | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bound | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 laid | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | bind | past | the thieves | the Brahman | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay down | past | the thieves not said here | Brahman | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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