The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 44
But you are approaching decked with water-lilies both blue and white, with lotus-flowers both red and white in your hands, chewing the fibrous stalks of water-lilies, smeared with mud, with drops of water streaming from you.
Who acts: drops · What happens: deck, chew, smear, stream · To what, where: you, fibrous stalks
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 (drops), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 decked | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 decked | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 decked | aux:pass |
| 4 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 decked | aux:pass |
| 5 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lilies | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lilies | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blue | obl |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 blue | cc:preconj |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decked | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 white | cc |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blue | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flowers | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 16 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowers | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lotus | punct |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 red | nsubj |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 red | cc:preconj |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decked | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 white | cc |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 red | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 white | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chewing | punct |
| 27 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 decked | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stalks | det |
| 29 | fibrous | fibrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stalks | amod |
| 30 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 chewing | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 lilies | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lilies | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 water | punct |
| 34 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stalks | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 smeared | punct |
| 36 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 stalks | acl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 mud | case |
| 38 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 smeared | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 drops | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 drops | case |
| 41 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 smeared | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 drops | nmod |
| 44 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 drops | acl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 you | case |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 streaming | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deck | present · passive | you | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | chew | gerund | the fibrous stalks of water lilies | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient | |||||
| 3 | smear | participle | the fibrous stalks of water lilies not said here | with mud; with drops of water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stream | gerund | drops of water not said here | from you | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from you=Source |
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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