The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 99
In agitation of heart over their death, both brothers adopted the life of ascetics, and building leaf-huts on the bank of the Ganges, took up their residence there.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: adopt, build, take up, die · To what, where: life, agitation, leaf huts, bank, residence
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 (brothers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 agitation | case |
| 2 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adopted | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 agitation | nmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 agitation | punct |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 adopted | nsubj |
| 11 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adopted | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ascetics | case |
| 15 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 life | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 building | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 building | cc |
| 18 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 adopted | advcl |
| 19 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 huts | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaf | punct |
| 21 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 building | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 building | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ganges | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Ganges | det |
| 27 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bank | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 adopted | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 took | compound:prt |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 residence | nmod:poss |
| 32 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 took | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past | both brothers | the life of ascetics | agitation of heart over brothers's death | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | gerund | both brothers not said here | leaf huts | the bank of the Ganges | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on bank=Source | |||
| 3 | take up | past | both brothers not said here | brothers's residence | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | brothers = brother | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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