The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 37
The man put the little hatchet in a secret place, and then went to the second ascetic and lived with him for a few days.
Who acts: man · What happens: put, go, live · To what, where: little hatchet, secret place, second 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hatchet | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hatchet | amod |
| 6 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ascetic | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ascetic | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 ascetic | amod |
| 18 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lived | cc |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the man | the little hatchet | a secret place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | the second ascetic | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ascetic=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | day | with hatchet | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
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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