The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 120
“Very well,” assented the ascetic, and went to his own leaf-hut.
What happens: assent, go · To what, where: ascetic, own leaf hut
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 assented | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 assented | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | assented | assent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetic | det |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assented | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assented | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hut | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hut | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaf | punct |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | past | the ascetic | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | king's own leaf hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location |
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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