The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 98
Wherever it went, very quickly were consumed grass, sticks, water, and pot-herbs.
Who acts: caravan · What happens: go, consume, be · To what, where: pot herbs, consumed grass
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), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 grass | advmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grass | cop |
| 8 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grass | amod |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sticks | punct |
| 11 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grass | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grass | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 herbs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 herbs | cc |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 herbs | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pot | punct |
| 18 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | caravan | pot herbs | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | consume | participle | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | consumed grass and sticks and water | sticks conj; water conj; quickly property | 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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