The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 20
Thought the foolish caravan-leader: “There are many advantages in my going first.
Who acts: many advantages, my · What happens: think, be, go · To what, where: foolish caravan leader, many advantages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many advantages, my), 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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leader | det |
| 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 | 1 Thought | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thought | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 advantages | amod |
| 12 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 advantages | acl |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the foolish caravan leader | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | many advantages | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | my | many advantages not said here | first property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location advantage=Theme |
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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