The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
When the king sent the fruit of the mango to other kings, he pierced with a thorn the spot where the sprout starts, for fear a tree might sprout from the stone.
Who acts: king, sprout, tree · What happens: send, pierce, start, sprout · To what, where: fruit, other kings, spot, stone
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, sprout, tree), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sent | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pierced | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fruit | det |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mango | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mango | det |
| 9 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fruit | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kings | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kings | amod |
| 12 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pierced | nsubj |
| 15 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thorn | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thorn | det |
| 18 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | obj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 starts | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sprout | det |
| 23 | sprout | sprout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 starts | nsubj |
| 24 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sprout | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 fear | case |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sprout | obl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sprout | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 sprout | aux |
| 31 | sprout | sprout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pierced | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 stone | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stone | det |
| 34 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sprout | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | the fruit of the mango | other kings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | pierce | past | king | the spot | with a thorn | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spot=Patient with thorn=Instrument | |||
| 3 | start | present | the sprout | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sprout | might | a tree | the stone | for fear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from stone=Source |
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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