The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 103
In times past, on a slope of Himavat, near a certain huge banyan tree, lived three friends: a partridge, a monkey, an elephant.
What happens: live · To what, where: three friends, slope
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 past | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 past | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 slope | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 slope | det |
| 7 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Himavat | case |
| 9 | Himavat | Himavat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slope | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 15 | banyan | banyan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slope | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slope | punct |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 friends | nummod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 partridge | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 partridge | det |
| 23 | partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friends | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 monkey | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 monkey | det |
| 26 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 partridge | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 elephant | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 elephant | det |
| 29 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 partridge | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | three friends and a partridge and a elephant | a slope of Himavat and a certain huge banyan tree | past property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=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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