The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 12
Seeing a little island in mid-ocean, he thought: “There now is the place for me to live.”
Who acts: brother, place · What happens: see, think, be, live · To what, where: little island, mid-ocean · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother, place), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | amod |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mid-ocean | case |
| 6 | mid-ocean | mid-ocean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 There | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | brother not said here | a little island | mid-ocean | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | brother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | the place for me | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | the place for me not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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