The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 153
“Where were you living when you saw it?” asked the lion.
Who acts: you, lion · What happens: live, see, ask · To what, where: master · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 living | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 living | nsubj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past · progressive | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | you | master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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