The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 144
And they passed in safety through that wilderness solely through the wisdom of that wise caravan-leader who acted as their guide.
Who acts: drivers, wise caravan leader · What happens: pass, act · To what, where: safety
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, wise 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 passed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 safety | case |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wilderness | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wilderness | det |
| 8 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 wisdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wisdom | det |
| 12 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 leader | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 leader | nsubj |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leader | amod |
| 16 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leader | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 caravan | punct |
| 18 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wisdom | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 acted | nsubj |
| 20 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 leader | acl:relcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 guide | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 guide | nmod:poss |
| 23 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 acted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | drivers = driver | safety | through that wilderness; through the wisdom of wise caravan leader that; solely property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wilderness=Initial_Location through wisdom=Destination | |||
| 2 | act | past | wise caravan leader that | as drivers'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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