The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 62
Now that foolish caravan-leader, out of his own foolishness, took the advice of the ogre, broke the chatties to pieces, threw away all of the water, leaving not so much as a dribble, and caused the carts to move forward.
Who acts: that, foolish caravan leader, carts · What happens: leader, take, break, throw away, leave, cause · To what, where: advice, chatties, all, much, carts
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, carts), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | 14 took | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 foolishness | punct |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 foolishness | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 foolishness | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foolishness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 foolishness | amod |
| 12 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leader | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leader | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 advice | det |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ogre | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ogre | det |
| 19 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advice | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 broke | punct |
| 21 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chatties | det |
| 23 | chatties | chatty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 broke | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 broke | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 threw | punct |
| 27 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 threw | advmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 threw | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 all | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leaving | punct |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 threw | advcl |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 much | advmod |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 leaving | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 dribble | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 dribble | det |
| 40 | dribble | dribble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 much | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 caused | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 caused | cc |
| 43 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 carts | det |
| 45 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 caused | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 move | mark |
| 47 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 caused | xcomp |
| 48 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 47 move | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leader | that | now | ogre's own foolishness conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness | the advice of the ogre | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness not said here | the chatties | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent chatty=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 4 | throw away | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness not said here | all of the water | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave | gerund | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness not said here | much | as a dribble | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||
| 6 | cause | past | the carts | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | move forward | to-infinitive | the carts not said here | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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