The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 157
The grateful elephant _Title-page_ _Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up_
Who acts: grateful elephant · What happens: caress, lift up · To what, where: Future Buddha, Buddha
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grateful elephant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caressed | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 page | punct |
| 5 | Title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 page | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Title | punct |
| 7 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elephant | appos |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 page | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 caressed | punct |
| 10 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 caressed | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elephant | det |
| 12 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caressed | nsubj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 elephant | nmod |
| 16 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Buddha | det |
| 18 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Buddha | compound |
| 19 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 caressed | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lifted | cc |
| 21 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caressed | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lifted | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 lifted | compound:prt |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | the grateful elephant | the Future Buddha | then | the elephant with Elephant's trunk nsubj | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | lift up | past | the grateful elephant not said here | Buddha | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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