The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 65
When, after eating the mango fruit, they planted the stone, nothing happened.
Who acts: fruits, nothing · What happens: eat, plant, happen · To what, where: mango fruit, 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 (fruits, nothing), 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 eating | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 planted | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fruit | det |
| 6 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fruit | compound |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 planted | nsubj |
| 10 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 planted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 planted | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | fruits = fruit not said here | the mango fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plant | past | fruits = fruit | the stone | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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