The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 121
In the same way a third little hare saw the second, and a fourth the third, until finally there were a hundred thousand little hares running away together.
Who acts: third little hare, thousand little hares · What happens: see, be, run away · To what, where: second, same way
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 (third little hare, thousand little hares), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 hare | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hare | amod |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 third | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 third | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fourth | det |
| 15 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 third | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 saw | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hares | punct |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 hares | case |
| 20 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 22 were | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hares | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hares | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 thousand | compound |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hares | nummod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hares | amod |
| 27 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | conj |
| 28 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 hares | acl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 running | advmod |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 running | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a third little hare | the second | the same way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer second=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | a third little hare not said here | until a thousand little hares | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | gerund | a thousand little hares not said here | away, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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