The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 118
Neither in the first stage of the journey, nor in the second, nor in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the fifth, nor in the sixth, nor in the seventh, did they see grass or sticks or water; they all met destruction and death.
Who acts: first stage, grass · What happens: see, stick, meet · To what, where: grass, water, destruction
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 (first stage, grass), 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 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 stage | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 stage | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stage | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 stage | amod |
| 5 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 see | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stage | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 second | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 second | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 second | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 second | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 stage | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 third | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 third | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 third | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 third | det |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 second | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fourth | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 fourth | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fourth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fourth | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 second | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fifth | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 fifth | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fifth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fifth | det |
| 28 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 second | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sixth | punct |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 sixth | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 sixth | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sixth | det |
| 33 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stage | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seventh | punct |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 38 seventh | cc |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 seventh | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 seventh | det |
| 38 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sixth | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seventh | punct |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | aux |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 see | nsubj |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 43 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 see | obj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 sticks | cc |
| 45 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | conj |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 water | cc |
| 47 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sticks | obj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 met | punct |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 met | nsubj |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 met | nsubj |
| 51 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | advcl |
| 52 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 met | obj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 death | cc |
| 54 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 destruction | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | the first stage of the journey nor the sixth | grass | stage nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stick | present | the first stage of the journey nor the sixth not said here | water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | grass | destruction and death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-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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