The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 154
When the Teacher departed, the heretics burst that refuge asunder, sought refuge once more in the heretical teachers, lapsed once more into their former position.
Who acts: Teacher, heretics · What happens: depart, burst, seek, lapse · To what, where: refuge asunder, refuge, more, former position
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 (Teacher, heretics), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 departed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heretics | det |
| 7 | heretics | heretic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burst | nsubj |
| 8 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 asunder | det |
| 10 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asunder | compound |
| 11 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sought | punct |
| 13 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 14 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sought | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sought | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 teachers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 teachers | det |
| 19 | heretical | heretical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teachers | amod |
| 20 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lapsed | punct |
| 22 | lapsed | lapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 lapsed | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 position | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 position | nmod:poss |
| 27 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 position | amod |
| 28 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lapsed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | the Teacher | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burst | past | the heretics | that refuge asunder | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | the heretics not said here | refuge | in the heretical teachers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in teacher=Location | |||
| 4 | lapse | past | the heretics not said here | more | heretics's former position | tree rules |
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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