The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 98

She also, when her mother came to the place where she was pounding rice and said to her, “My dear, shoo the flies away from me!”--she also, in the very same way, struck her mother with a pestle and killed her and began to weep.

Who acts: Girl · What happens: come, pound, say, shoo away, strike, kill · To what, where: place, rice, Girl, flies, mother, same way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 pounding	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pounding	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pounding	aux
14	pounding	pound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 place	acl:relcl
15	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pounding	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
22	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dear	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shoo	punct
25	shoo	shoo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 dear	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flies	det
27	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shoo	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 shoo	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 shoo	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 shoo	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 struck	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 struck	nsubj
35	also	also	ADV	_	43 struck	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 also	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 same	advmod
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 way	amod
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struck	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 way	punct
43	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mother	nmod:poss
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struck	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 pestle	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 pestle	det
48	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struck	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 killed	cc
50	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 struck	conj
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 killed	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 began	cc
53	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 struck	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 weep	mark
55	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 began	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Girl			the place	Girl's mother nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	pound	past · progressive	Girl	rice				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Product
3	say speech: express	past	Girl not said here		Girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	shoo away in a quote	infinitive		the flies			from Girl; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme from i=Initial_Location
5	strike	past	Girl	Girl's mother		the same way	with a pestle	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mother=Patient with pestle=Instrument
6	kill	past	Girl not said here	Girl				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	begin	past	Girl not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	weep	to-infinitive	Girl not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 98