The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
Past his leaf-hut ran an elephant-track.
What happens: run · To what, where: elephant track, leaf hut
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: 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 | Past | past | ADP | _ | 5 hut | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hut | nmod:poss |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hut | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaf | punct |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 track | det |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 track | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 elephant | punct |
| 10 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a elephant track | Sir's leaf hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent track=Theme past hut=Trajectory |
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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