The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 99
Now over that caravan were two caravan-leaders, one over five hundred carts, one over five hundred carts.
Who acts: caravan · What happens: be · To what, where: two caravan leaders
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 caravan | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 caravan | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 caravan | det |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaders | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leaders | cop |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 leaders | nummod |
| 7 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaders | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 caravan | punct |
| 9 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carts | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 carts | nummod |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 hundred | advmod |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 carts | nummod |
| 15 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leaders | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carts | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 carts | nummod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 hundred | advmod |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 carts | nummod |
| 21 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leaders | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that caravan | two caravan leaders and one hundred carts and one hundred carts | one hundred carts conj | 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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