The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 134
With the speed of a lion he preceded them to the foot of a mountain and thrice roared the roar of a lion.
Who acts: lion · What happens: proceed, roar · To what, where: earth, roar
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 (lion), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 speed | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 speed | det |
| 3 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lion | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speed | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 preceded | nsubj |
| 8 | preceded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lion | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 preceded | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preceded | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foot | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thrice | cc |
| 17 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mountain | conj |
| 18 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roar | det |
| 20 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roared | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roar | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | lion | earth | to the foot of a mountain and thrice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | roar | past | the roar of a lion | with the speed of a lion | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar | a lion | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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