The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 14
Likewise that foolish caravan-leader also filled five hundred carts, made preparations for the journey, and was all ready to start.
Who acts: that, foolish caravan leader · What happens: leader, fill, make, be, start · To what, where: hundred carts, preparations
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 (that, 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 6 leader | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 leader | nsubj |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leader | amod |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leader | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 caravan | punct |
| 6 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 filled | advmod |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 carts | nummod |
| 11 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | parataxis |
| 14 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 journey | det |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preparations | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ready | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | cop |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 ready | advmod |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 start | mark |
| 24 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leader | that | likewise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | foolish caravan leader | hundred carts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | preparations | for the journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all, ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | start | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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