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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 29

“Very well,” said the monkeys, and went about watering the saplings, some of them pulling the saplings up by the roots and others planting them again.

Who acts: monkeys, some, roots · What happens: say, go, water, pull up, plant · To what, where: saplings · 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 (monkeys, some, roots), 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

punctadvmodadvmodpunctpunctdetobjpunctccconjmarkadvcldetobjpunctnsubjcasenmodadvcldetobjcompound:prtcasedetoblccconjaclobjadvmodpunctroot“PUNCTVeryADVwellADV,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETmonkeysNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBaboutSCONJwateringVERBtheDETsaplingsNOUN,PUNCTsomeDETofADPthemPRONpullingVERBtheDETsaplingsNOUNupADPbyADPtheDETrootsNOUNandCCONJothersNOUNplantingVERBthemPRONagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 saidpunct
2VeryveryADV_3 welladvmod
3wellwellADVDegree=Pos6 saidadvmod
4,,PUNCT_3 wellpunct
5”"PUNCT_3 wellpunct
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 monkeysdet
8monkeysmonkeyNOUNNumber=Plur6 saidobj
9,,PUNCT_11 wentpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 wentcc
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 saidconj
12aboutaboutSCONJ_13 wateringmark
13wateringwaterVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 wentadvcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 saplingsdet
15saplingssaplingNOUNNumber=Plur13 wateringobj
16,,PUNCT_20 pullingpunct
17somesomeDETPronType=Ind20 pullingnsubj
18ofofADP_19 themcase
19themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 somenmod
20pullingpullVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 wentadvcl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 saplingsdet
22saplingssaplingNOUNNumber=Plur20 pullingobj
23upupADP_20 pullingcompound:prt
24bybyADP_26 rootscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 rootsdet
26rootsrootNOUNNumber=Plur20 pullingobl
27andandCCONJ_28 otherscc
28othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur26 rootsconj
29plantingplantVERBVerbForm=Ger26 rootsacl
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 plantingobj
31againagainADV_29 plantingadvmod
32..PUNCT_6 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe monkeyswell propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2gopastthe monkeys not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3watergerundthe monkeys not said herethe saplingsvn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sapling=Destination
4pull upgerundsome of saplingsthe saplingsby the roots and othersvn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapling=Theme
5plantgerundthe roots and others not said heresaplings = saplingagainvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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