The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 140
Thereupon that caravan-leader addressed his drivers: “This caravan here met destruction and ruin solely through the folly of that foolish caravan-leader who acted as its guide.
Who acts: caravan leader, caravan, foolish caravan leader · What happens: address, meet, ruin, act · To what, where: drivers, destruction, folly
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 leader, caravan, foolish caravan 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 addressed | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 leader | det |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 caravan | punct |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 addressed | nsubj |
| 6 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drivers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 addressed | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 caravan | det |
| 12 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 caravan | advmod |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 addressed | conj |
| 15 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ruin | cc |
| 17 | ruin | ruin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 18 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 17 ruin | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 folly | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 folly | det |
| 21 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruin | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 leader | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 leader | nsubj |
| 24 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 leader | amod |
| 25 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leader | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 caravan | punct |
| 27 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 folly | nmod |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 acted | nsubj |
| 29 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 leader | acl:relcl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 guide | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 guide | nmod:poss |
| 32 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 acted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | that caravan leader | leader's drivers | thereupon property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Destination | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past | this caravan | destruction | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ruin in a quote | present | this caravan not said here | the folly of foolish caravan leader that | solely property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | act in a quote | past | foolish caravan leader that | as caravan's guide | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as guide=Attribute |
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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