The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
The little hatchet went and chopped off the ascetic’s head and brought him the gem.
Who acts: little hatchet · What happens: go, chop off, bring · To what, where: head, gem, hatchet
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 (little hatchet), 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 | 3 hatchet | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hatchet | amod |
| 3 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chopped | cc |
| 6 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ascetic | det |
| 9 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 ascetic | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chopped | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gem | det |
| 16 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little hatchet | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chop off | past | the little hatchet not said here | the ascetic's head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the little hatchet not said here | the gem | hatchet | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination gem=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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