The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 165
A Buddhist Tar-baby 60 _Then he hit him with a spear_
Who acts: Buddhist Tar baby · What happens: hit · To what, where: tortoise
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 (Buddhist Tar baby), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baby | amod |
| 3 | Tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tar | punct |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | nsubj |
| 6 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 baby | flat |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 baby | punct |
| 8 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hit | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hit | nsubj |
| 10 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hit | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spear | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spear | det |
| 14 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | a Buddhist Tar baby | tortoise | then | with a spear; baby nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spear=Instrument |
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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