The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 14
One day the boar lay down at the foot of that tree, placed the gem in front of him, and fell asleep.
Who acts: boar · What happens: lie down, place, fall · To what, where: foot, gem, front
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 (boar), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boar | det |
| 4 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foot | det |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gem | det |
| 16 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 placed | conj |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the boar | the foot of that tree | day | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||
| 2 | place | past | the boar not said here | the gem | front of brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gem=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the boar not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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