The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 116
Finally the other two animals, in the same way as before, asked the partridge.
What happens: ask · To what, where: partridge
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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 animals | nummod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Finally | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animals | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 before | case |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 way | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 partridge | det |
| 16 | partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the partridge | finally property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent partridge=Recipient |
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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