The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 12
In the meantime the lioness died of hunger in the cave, and the lion went off somewhere or other with his cub, and so the night came to an end.
Who acts: lioness, lion, night · What happens: die, go off, come · To what, where: end
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 (lioness, lion, night), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lioness | det |
| 5 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hunger | case |
| 8 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 went | advmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 somewhere | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cub | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cub | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the lioness | of hunger; in the cave; in the meantime | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in meantime=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | the lion | with lion's cub; somewhere property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the night | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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