The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 171
A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 _So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion_
Who acts: Buddhist Henny · What happens: take, spring · To what, where: little hare, back
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 Henny), 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 | 3 Henny | det |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Henny | amod |
| 3 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Penny | punct |
| 5 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Henny | appos |
| 6 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Penny | flat |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 8 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 taking | advmod |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Henny | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hare | amod |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Henny | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sprang | nsubj |
| 18 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 18 sprang | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 speed | det |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sprang | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lion | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lion | det |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speed | nmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a Buddhist Henny not said here | the little hare | Henny's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | spring | past | a Buddhist Henny | with the speed of a lion; Henny nsubj; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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