The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 59
Having eaten it, he caused the stone to be planted in his own garden, and to be sprinkled with milk and water.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, eat, cause, plant, sprinkle · To what, where: tree, stone, own garden
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 (king), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 caused | advcl |
| 2 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eaten | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 planted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 planted | aux:pass |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stone | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 garden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 garden | amod |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 planted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprinkled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprinkled | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sprinkled | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 20 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 caused | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 milk | case |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprinkled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 milk | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | participle | king not said here | tree | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | king | the stone | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition stone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | plant | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | the stone not said here | king's own garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in garden=Destination | |||
| 5 | sprinkle | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | with milk and water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with milk=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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