The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 28
So harnessing his carts, he set out, and in due course passing beyond the habitations of men, he reached the mouth of the wilderness.
Who acts: Sir, due course · What happens: harness, set out, pass, reach · To what, where: carts, habitations, mouth, due course
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 (Sir, due course), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 harnessing | advmod |
| 2 | harnessing | harness | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 set | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 carts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 harnessing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 harnessing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reached | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 course | case |
| 12 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 course | amod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obl |
| 14 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 course | acl |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 habitations | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 habitations | det |
| 17 | habitations | habitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 habitations | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 course | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mouth | det |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wilderness | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wilderness | det |
| 27 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mouth | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harness | gerund | Sir not said here | Sir's carts | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cart=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | due course not said here | the habitations of men | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond habitation=Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | Sir | the mouth of the wilderness | due course | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=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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