The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 32
The ascetic, having a desire to travel through the air, took the gem and gave him the little hatchet.
Who acts: ascetic · What happens: have, travel, take, give · To what, where: desire, air, gem, little hatchet, ascetic
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 (ascetic), 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 ascetic | det |
| 2 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ascetic | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 desire | det |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 travel | mark |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desire | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ascetic | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gem | det |
| 15 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hatchet | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hatchet | amod |
| 21 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the ascetic not said here | a desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | the ascetic not said here | a desire not said here | the air | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take | past | the ascetic | the gem | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the ascetic not said here | the little hatchet | ascetic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hatchet=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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