The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 23
The boar woke up, but not seeing the gem, ran this way and that, all of a tremble.
Who acts: boar · What happens: wake up, not see, run · To what, where: gem, way
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boar | det |
| 2 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seeing | advmod |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woke | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gem | det |
| 10 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 that | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ran | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tremble | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tremble | det |
| 21 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 all | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the boar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not see | gerund | the boar not said here | the gem | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gem=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | past | this way that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=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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