The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 159
Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 _Thus did those four persons travel together, swept along by the river_
Who acts: Grateful animals, four persons · What happens: do, travel, sweep along
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 animals, four persons), 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 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 man | cc |
| 4 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animals | conj |
| 6 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 man | flat |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 animals | punct |
| 8 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 persons | det |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 persons | nummod |
| 12 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 travel | nsubj |
| 13 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 did | ccomp |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 travel | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swept | punct |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 did | conj |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 16 swept | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Grateful animals and ungrateful man | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | that four persons | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sweep along | participle | Grateful animals and ungrateful man not said here | by the river; along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory |
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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