The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 136
The lion made his way in among them and asked: “Why are you running away?”
Who acts: lion, you · What happens: make, ask, run away · To what, where: way · 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 (lion, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
| 13 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 running | advmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 running | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 running | nsubj |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 running | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the lion | lion's way | among earth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the lion not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run away in a quote | present · progressive | you | away 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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