The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 112
At that very instant a Vilva fruit fell on top of the cocoanut leaf.
Who acts: Vilva fruit · What happens: fall · To what, where: top
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vilva fruit), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 instant | obl |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 instant | advmod |
| 4 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fruit | det |
| 6 | Vilva | Vilva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fruit | compound |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 instant | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 leaf | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaf | det |
| 13 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaf | compound |
| 14 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 instant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a Vilva fruit | top of the cocoanut leaf | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
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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