The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 129
The roads are drenched with water; abundant are grass and sticks and water.
What happens: drench, be, stick · To what, where: roads, abundant grass, water
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roads | det |
| 2 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drenched | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drenched | aux:pass |
| 4 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drenched | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 grass | punct |
| 8 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grass | amod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grass | cop |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drenched | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sticks | cc |
| 12 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drenched | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 water | cc |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sticks | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drench | present · passive | the roads | with water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | abundant grass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stick | present | water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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