The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 24
And in the garden of his palace grew a wishing-tree, and its name was Granter of Desires, for it granted all desires.
Who acts: name, tree · What happens: grow, be, grant, name · To what, where: wishing tree, garden, Granter, desires
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 (name, tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 garden | nmod |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wishing | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Granter | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Granter | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Granter | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Granter | cop |
| 18 | Granter | Granter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Desires | case |
| 20 | Desires | Desire | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Granter | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 granted | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 granted | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 granted | nsubj |
| 24 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 desires | det |
| 26 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 granted | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a wishing tree | the garden of Fairy's palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | tree's name | Granter | of Desires | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grant | past | name | all desires | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | tree | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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