The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 54
One day, while he was amusing himself in the mighty river, in an enclosure formed by a net, there floated up and lodged in the net a single mango fruit fit for the gods.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: amuse, form, float up, lodge · To what, where: soldier, mighty river, enclosure, single mango fruit fit, net
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 (soldier), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amusing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 amusing | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 amusing | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 amusing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amusing | aux |
| 7 | amusing | amuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 amusing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amusing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enclosure | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 enclosure | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 enclosure | det |
| 16 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amusing | obl |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 enclosure | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 net | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 net | det |
| 20 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 floated | punct |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 floated | advmod |
| 23 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 amusing | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 floated | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lodged | cc |
| 26 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 floated | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 net | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 net | det |
| 29 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lodged | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fit | det |
| 31 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fit | amod |
| 32 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fit | compound |
| 33 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fit | compound |
| 34 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lodged | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 gods | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gods | det |
| 37 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fit | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amusing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · progressive | soldier | soldier | the mighty river | day | in a enclosure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |
| 2 | form | participle | a enclosure not said here | by a net | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by net=Location | ||||
| 3 | float up | participle | soldier not said here | there | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lodge | participle | soldier not said here | a single mango fruit fit | the net | for the gods | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fit=Theme in net=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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