The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 12
In the same city of Benāres there was another caravan-leader besides, a foolish, short-sighted, resourceless fellow.
Who acts: leader besides · What happens: be, sight · To what, where: same city
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 (leader besides), 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 | _ | 4 city | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Benāres | case |
| 6 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 besides | det |
| 10 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leader | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 caravan | punct |
| 12 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 besides | compound |
| 13 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 was | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fellow | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fellow | det |
| 16 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fellow | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 foolish | punct |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sighted | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 short | punct |
| 20 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fellow | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fellow | punct |
| 22 | resourceless | resourceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fellow | amod |
| 23 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 besides | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | another leader besides a foolish sighted resourceless fellow | the same city of Benāres; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 2 | sight | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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