The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 132
So saying, that dragon-king plunged into the water, went back to his own World of Dragons, and never came back again.
What happens: say, plunge, go back, not come back · To what, where: dragon king, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 king | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plunged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 World | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 World | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 World | amod |
| 18 | World | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Dragons | case |
| 20 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 World | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 came | advmod |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | that dragon king ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | that dragon king not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | to king's own World of Dragons result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result | |||||
| 4 | not come back | past | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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