The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 100
And to these caravan-leaders occurred the following thought: “This is a great caravan of a thousand carts.
Who acts: caravan leaders, This · What happens: occur, follow, be · To what, where: following thought, great caravan
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan leaders, This), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 occurred | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 leaders | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 leaders | det |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaders | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 caravan | punct |
| 6 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 occurred | nsubj |
| 7 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thought | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thought | amod |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 caravan | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 caravan | punct |
| 13 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 caravan | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 caravan | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 caravan | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 caravan | amod |
| 17 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 carts | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thousand | det |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 carts | nummod |
| 21 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caravan | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | this caravan leaders | the following thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | This | a great caravan | of thousand carts | tree rules |
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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