The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 78
The new gardener, realizing that the garden was in his own hands, planted nimbs and pot-herbs and creepers all around the mango tree.
Who acts: new gardener · What happens: realize, be, plant · To what, where: own hands
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 (new gardener), 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 | 3 gardener | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gardener | amod |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hands | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 realizing | punct |
| 5 | realizing | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gardener | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 garden | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 realizing | advcl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hands | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hands | amod |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nimbs | punct |
| 15 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 nimbs | amod |
| 16 | nimbs | nimb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hands | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 herbs | cc |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 herbs | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pot | punct |
| 20 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nimbs | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 creepers | cc |
| 22 | creepers | creeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 herbs | conj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 tree | advmod |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | compound |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nimbs | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | gerund | the new gardener not said here | the garden advcl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the new gardener | gardener's own hands and planted nimbs around the mango tree and pot herbs and creepers | gardener nmod:poss; planted nimbs around the mango tree and pot herbs and creepers conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | plant | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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