The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 118
I ate its fruits and dropped its seed in this place.
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, drop · To what, where: fruits, seed, place
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fruits | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ate | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dropped | cc |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 seed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | I | place's fruits | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | I not said here | place's seed | this place | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in place=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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