The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 155
For there, at the foot of a Vilva tree, under a cocoanut sapling, beneath a cocoanut leaf, I lay and thought: ‘If the earth collapses, where shall I go?’
Who acts: I, earth · What happens: lay, think, collapse, go
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 (I, earth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 there | case |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lay | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foot | det |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 there | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | Vilva | Vilva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sapling | punct |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 sapling | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sapling | det |
| 14 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sapling | compound |
| 15 | sapling | sapling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaf | punct |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 leaf | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 leaf | det |
| 19 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaf | compound |
| 20 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thought | cc |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 collapses | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 collapses | punct |
| 28 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 collapses | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 collapses | nsubj |
| 31 | collapses | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 go | advmod |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 go | aux |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 go | nsubj |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 collapses | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | I | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | collapse a condition, not said to happen | present | the earth | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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