The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 101
Wherever we go, very quickly are consumed grass, sticks, water, and pot-herbs.
Who acts: we · What happens: go, consume, be · To what, where: consumed grass
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 (we), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grass | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grass | cop |
| 8 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grass | amod |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sticks | punct |
| 11 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grass | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sticks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 herbs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 herbs | cc |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 herbs | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pot | punct |
| 18 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grass | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | we | quickly, wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consume | participle | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | consumed grass and sticks and water and pot herbs | sticks and water conj; pot herbs conj | 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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