The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 139
The monkeys took the water-skins and wooden water-pots and watered the young trees.
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: take, water · To what, where: water skins, young trees
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 (monkeys), 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 monkeys | det |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skins | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skins | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pots | cc |
| 9 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pots | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pots | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 skins | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watered | cc |
| 14 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the monkeys | the water skins and wooden water pots | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | water | past | the monkeys not said here | the young trees | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=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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