The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 84
Where she was pounding rice, her old mother came in and lay down.
Who acts: merchant, old mother · What happens: pound, come in, lay down · To what, where: rice
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 (merchant, old mother), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 pounding | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pounding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pounding | aux |
| 4 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pounding | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mother | amod |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pounding | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pounding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pound | past · progressive | merchant | rice | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Product | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | merchant's old mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | merchant's old mother not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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