--- title: When they were drunk and had fallen, he gathered sticks of wood, bui… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When they were drunk and had fallen, he gathered sticks of wood, built a pyre, placed the bodies of his mother and father on the pyre, lighted it, and with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation thrice made sunwise circuit of the pyre. Who acts: soldiers, Dīghāvu, bodies. A sentence of «The gr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/) / 49 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 49 When they were drunk and had fallen, he gathered sticks of wood, built a pyre, placed the bodies of his mother and father on the pyre, lighted it, and with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation thrice made sunwise circuit of the pyre. **Who acts:** soldiers, Dīghāvu, bodies · **What happens:** be, fall, gather, build, place, light · **To what, where:** sticks, pyre, bodies, joined hands, reverent salutation thrice, sunwise circuit This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, Dīghāvu, bodies), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:6:49 # text = When they were drunk and had fallen, he gathered sticks of wood, built a pyre, placed the bodies of his mother and father on the pyre, lighted it, and with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation thrice made sunwise circuit of the pyre. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pyre pyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pyre pyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 lighted light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 38 upraised upraise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 reverent reverent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 salutation salutation NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 thrice thrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 44 sunwise sunwise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 pyre pyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | | | | | drunk *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **gather** | past | Dīghāvu | sticks of wood | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 4 | **build** | past | Dīghāvu *not said here* | a pyre | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pyre=Product | | 5 | **place** | past | Dīghāvu *not said here* | the bodies of Dīghāvu's mother and father on the pyre | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | | 6 | **light** | participle | the bodies of Dīghāvu's mother and father on the pyre *not said here* | pyre | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 7 | **join** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **upraise** | participle | | joined hands *not said here* | | reverent salutation thrice | | | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | past | Dīghāvu *not said here* | sunwise circuit of the pyre | | | | with joined hands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)