The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 134
Now the older ascetic, thinking, “I will find out how my younger brother is getting on,” went to visit him.
Who acts: older ascetic, younger brother · What happens: think, find out, get on, go, visit · To what, where: Nor · 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: who acts (older ascetic, younger 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ascetic | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ascetic | det |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ascetic | amod |
| 4 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ascetic | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thinking | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 find | compound:prt |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 getting | advmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 getting | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 getting | aux |
| 18 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 find | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 getting | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ascetic | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ascetic | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 visit | mark |
| 24 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 visit | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the older ascetic not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | future | the older ascetic = ascetic | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | my younger brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the older ascetic | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | the older ascetic not said here | Nor | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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