The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 120
In this spot he pulled up the young trees by the roots, and according as the roots were large or small, watered them plentifully or sparingly.
Who acts: boy, roots · What happens: pull up, accord, be, water · To what, where: young trees, spot, roots
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 (boy, roots), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 roots | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roots | det |
| 12 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 watered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 watered | cc |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 watered | advcl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 large | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roots | det |
| 18 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 large | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 large | cop |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 according | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 small | cc |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 large | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 according | punct |
| 24 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 watered | obj |
| 26 | plentifully | plentifully | ADV | _ | 24 watered | advmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 sparingly | cc |
| 28 | sparingly | sparingly | ADV | _ | 26 plentifully | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | boy | the young trees | this spot | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the roots | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the roots not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | water | past | boy not said here | roots = root | plentifully property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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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