The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 103

Every day Jewel-neck would come to the hermitage of the younger ascetic and sit down and talk and converse with him.

Who acts: day · What happens: come, sit down, talk, converse · To what, where: hermitage

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
3	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 neck	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Jewel	punct
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 hermitage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hermitage	det
10	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 ascetic	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ascetic	det
13	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 ascetic	amod
14	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hermitage	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sit	cc
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sit	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 talk	cc
19	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 converse	cc
21	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 talk	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 converse	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	would	every day	the hermitage of the younger ascetic		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location
2	sit down	infinitive	every day not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	infinitive	every day not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	converse speech: other	infinitive	every day not said here		with Neck	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 103