The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
He lived there for two or three days, performed the major and minor duties for the ascetic, and saw the magical power of the little hatchet.
Who acts: man · What happens: live, perform, see · To what, where: major duties, magical power
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 10 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 duties | det |
| 12 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 duties | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 minor | cc |
| 14 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 major | conj |
| 15 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 performed | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ascetic | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ascetic | det |
| 18 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 duties | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 power | det |
| 23 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 power | amod |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hatchet | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hatchet | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hatchet | amod |
| 28 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 power | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | man | there | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | perform | past | man not said here | the major duties | for the ascetic | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent duty=Theme for ascetic=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | see | past | man not said here | the magical power of the little hatchet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
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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