The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 12
So he left off seeking food in his own region and went to the edge of a wood.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: leave off, seek, go · To what, where: food, own region, edge
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 (Brahmadatta), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 left | compound:prt |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 left | xcomp |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 region | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 region | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 region | amod |
| 10 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 edge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | Brahmadatta | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | Brahmadatta not said here | food | Brahmadatta's own region | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in region=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Brahmadatta not said here | the edge of a wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_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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