The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 50
As the carts passed, one after another, he inquired: “Where are you going with these carts?”
Who acts: carts, Friend, you · What happens: pass, inquire, go · To what, where: one · 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 (carts, Friend, you), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carts | det |
| 3 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 carts | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 carts | det |
| 20 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 going | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the carts | one | after another | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | with this carts | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cart=Beneficiary |
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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