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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 9

From that time on the little hatchet made fire for the eldest brother; when the second brother beat the drum, the elephants fled; the youngest brother enjoyed his curds.

Who acts: little hatchet, second brother, elephants, youngest brother · What happens: make, beat, flee, enjoy · To what, where: fire, drum, curds

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 (little hatchet, second brother, elephants, youngest brother), 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

casedetoblcasedetamodnmodacloblcasedetamodnmodpunctmarkdetamodnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctdetnsubjpunctdetamodnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctrootFromADPthatDETtimeNOUNonADPtheDETlittleADJhatchetNOUNmadeVERBfireNOUNforADPtheDETeldestADJbrotherNOUN;PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETsecondADJbrotherNOUNbeatVERBtheDETdrumNOUN,PUNCTtheDETelephantsNOUNfledVERB;PUNCTtheDETyoungestADJbrotherNOUNenjoyedVERBhisPRONcurdsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FromfromADP_3 timecase
2thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 timedet
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing25 fledobl
4ononADP_7 hatchetcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 hatchetdet
6littlelittleADJDegree=Pos7 hatchetamod
7hatchethatchetNOUNNumber=Sing3 timenmod
8mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 hatchetacl
9firefireNOUNNumber=Sing8 madeobl
10forforADP_13 brothercase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 brotherdet
12eldesteldADJDegree=Sup13 brotheramod
13brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing9 firenmod
14;;PUNCT_19 beatpunct
15whenwhenSCONJ_19 beatmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 brotherdet
17secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord18 brotheramod
18brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing19 beatnsubj
19beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 timeacl:relcl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 drumdet
21drumdrumNOUNNumber=Sing19 beatobj
22,,PUNCT_3 timepunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 elephantsdet
24elephantselephantNOUNNumber=Plur25 flednsubj
25fledfleeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
26;;PUNCT_30 enjoyedpunct
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 brotherdet
28youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup29 brotheramod
29brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing30 enjoyednsubj
30enjoyedenjoyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 fledconj
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 curdsnmod:poss
32curdscurdNOUNNumber=Plur30 enjoyedobj
33..PUNCT_25 fledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makeparticiplethe little hatchet not said herefire for the eldest brothervn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2beatpastthe second brotherthe drumvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
3fleepastthe elephantstimevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4enjoypastthe youngest brotherSakka's curdsvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curd=Stimulus

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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