The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 111
Moreover, when I stood with the tree between my thighs, the tips of its branches used to rub against my belly.
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, use, rub · To what, where: thighs, branches, belly
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: who acts (I), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stood | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 thighs | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thighs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thighs | thigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tips | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tips | det |
| 14 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thighs | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 branches | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 branches | nmod:poss |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tips | nmod |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 branches | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rub | mark |
| 20 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 used | xcomp |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 belly | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 belly | nmod:poss |
| 23 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rub | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | I | my thighs and the tips of tree's branches | with the tree; moreover property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between thigh=Location | |||
| 2 | use | participle | tree's branches not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rub | to-infinitive | my belly | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against belly=Destination |
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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