The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 117
On the third day you must stand on the bank of the Ganges and ask him just as he comes out of the water.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: stand, ask, come out · To what, where: bank, king, water
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 (you, king), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bank | det |
| 10 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ganges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ganges | det |
| 13 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bank | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stand | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 comes | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 comes | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | must | you | the bank of the Ganges | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come out | present | king | the water | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result |
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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