The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 97
In olden times a great caravan of a thousand carts went from the eastern country to the western country.
Who acts: great caravan · What happens: go · To what, where: eastern country
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 (great caravan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 caravan | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caravan | amod |
| 6 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 carts | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thousand | det |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 carts | nummod |
| 10 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caravan | nmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a great caravan of thousand carts | the eastern country | time | to the western country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location to country=Destination |
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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