The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 119
“Reverend Sirs, when this garden was planted, a certain village boy watered it.
Who acts: certain village boy · What happens: plant, water · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain village boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sirs | punct |
| 2 | Reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sirs | compound |
| 3 | Sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 planted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 planted | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 planted | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 planted | aux:pass |
| 9 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 watered | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | compound |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watered | nsubj |
| 15 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 planted | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 watered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant in a quote | past · passive | this garden | Reverend Sirs obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | water in a quote | past | a certain village boy | garden | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=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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