The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 113
The foolish caravan-leader who went first was not resourceful.
Who acts: foolish caravan leader · What happens: go, not be
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish caravan leader), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leader | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leader | amod |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 caravan | punct |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resourceful | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leader | acl:relcl |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 resourceful | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 resourceful | advmod |
| 11 | resourceful | resourceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 resourceful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the foolish caravan leader | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the foolish caravan leader | resourceful 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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