The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 73
There he had the water-chatties filled, putting in an abundant supply of water.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: have, fill, put · To what, where: water chatties, abundant supply
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 (Buddha), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 had | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chatties | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chatties | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | chatties | chatty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chatties | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 putting | punct |
| 10 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 supply | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 supply | det |
| 13 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 supply | amod |
| 14 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supply | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Buddha | the water chatties | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chatty=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | the water chatties not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put | gerund | Buddha not said here | a abundant supply of water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in supply=Destination |
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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