The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 7
Thereupon, as it were cleaving the Vault of the Snow and releasing the full moon, he revealed circumstances hidden by rebirth:
Who acts: tube, Refuge · What happens: cleave, release, reveal, hide · To what, where: Vault, full moon, circumstances
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 (tube, Refuge), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 19 revealed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 cleaving | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cleaving | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cleaving | aux |
| 6 | cleaving | cleave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 revealed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Vault | det |
| 8 | Vault | Vault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaving | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Snow | det |
| 11 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Vault | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 releasing | cc |
| 13 | releasing | release | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cleaving | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moon | amod |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 releasing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaving | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 revealed | nsubj |
| 19 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 revealed | obj |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 circumstances | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 rebirth | case |
| 23 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cleave | past · progressive | tube | the Vault of the Snow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Patient | ||||
| 2 | release | gerund | tube not said here | the full moon | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer moon=Source | ||||
| 3 | reveal | past | Refuge | circumstances | thereupon property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic | |||
| 4 | hide | participle | circumstances not said here | by rebirth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by rebirth=Location |
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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