The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

The story goes that while he was splitting wood at the door of the room where the monks took hot baths, a snake came out of a hole in a rotten log and bit him on the big toe.

Who acts: story, monks, snake · What happens: go, split, take, come out, bite · To what, where: wood, door, hot baths, hole, monk, big toe

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 (story, monks, snake), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 splitting	mark
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 splitting	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 splitting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 splitting	aux
8	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 goes	advcl
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 splitting	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 splitting	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	nmod
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 took	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monks	det
18	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 room	acl:relcl
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 baths	amod
21	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snake	det
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 hole	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hole	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hole	det
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 log	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 log	det
32	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 log	amod
33	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hole	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bit	cc
35	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bit	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 toe	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 toe	det
39	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 toe	amod
40	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bit	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	present	the story			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past · progressive	story	wood	the door of the room	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
3	take	past	the monks	hot baths		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme
4	come out	past	a snake	a hole in a rotten log		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
5	bite	past	a snake not said here	monk	the big toe	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on toe=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 16