The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 11
But--wonderful to relate!--the wise boar did not die, for his life remained in him, as if to see how long his endurance would endure.
Who acts: wise boar, life, endurance · What happens: relate, not die, remain, see, endure
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise boar, life, endurance), 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 | _ | 3 wonderful | cc |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 relate | mark |
| 5 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | xcomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boar | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boar | amod |
| 10 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 die | advmod |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 remained | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remained | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 die | conj |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 endure | advmod |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 endurance | nmod:poss |
| 29 | endurance | endurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 endure | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 endure | aux |
| 31 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not die | past · do-support | the wise boar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | boar's life | in boar | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | ||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wise boar not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | endure | would | boar's endurance | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP 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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