The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 137
And in obedience to his command they started the caravan forward, leaving the things just as they were.
Who acts: drivers, leader · What happens: start, leave, be, command · To what, where: caravan, obedience, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (drivers, leader), 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 | _ | 8 started | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 obedience | case |
| 3 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obedience | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 caravan | det |
| 10 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obj |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 started | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaving | obj |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 were | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 were | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leaving | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | drivers = driver | the caravan | obedience to leader's command | forward property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | leave | gerund | drivers = driver not said here | the things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | drivers = driver | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | command | leader | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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