The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 84
As soon as he put the mango into his mouth, perceiving that the juice tasted like the vile juice of the nimb, he was unable to swallow it, and coughing it up, spat it out.
Who acts: king, juice · What happens: put, perceive, taste, be, swallow, cough up · To what, where: mango, mouth
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, juice), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 put | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mango | det |
| 7 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 perceiving | punct |
| 12 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 put | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 tasted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 juice | det |
| 15 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 perceiving | ccomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 juice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 juice | det |
| 19 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 juice | amod |
| 20 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tasted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 nimb | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nimb | det |
| 23 | nimb | nimb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 juice | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unable | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 unable | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 unable | cop |
| 27 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 put | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 swallow | mark |
| 29 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 unable | xcomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 swallow | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 spat | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 spat | cc |
| 33 | coughing | cough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 spat | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 coughing | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 coughing | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 coughing | punct |
| 37 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 unable | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 spat | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 spat | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | king | the mango | king's mouth | soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mango=Goal | ||
| 2 | perceive | gerund | king not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | taste | past | the juice | like the vile juice of the nimb | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swallow | to-infinitive | king not said here | mango | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cough up | gerund | mango | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | spat out | infinitive | mango | tree rules |
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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