The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 39
Straightway--wonderful to relate!--the wishing-tree showered a shower of gold upon the earth, and all living beings rejoiced thereat and became well-disposed to Jīmūta-vāhana, and the fame and glory of him spread both near and far.
Who acts: Straightway, living beings, fame, vāhana · What happens: relate, shower, live, rejoice, become, dispose · To what, where: shower, earth
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 (Straightway, living beings, fame, vāhana), 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 | Straightway | Straightway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 showered | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Straightway | amod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 relate | mark |
| 5 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | advcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Straightway | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Straightway | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wishing | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showered | nsubj |
| 12 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shower | det |
| 14 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shower | nmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rejoiced | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rejoiced | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 beings | det |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 beings | amod |
| 24 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 25 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 showered | parataxis |
| 26 | thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 25 rejoiced | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rejoiced | conj |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 disposed | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 well | punct |
| 31 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 became | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 vāhana | case |
| 33 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 vāhana | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Jīmūta | punct |
| 35 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disposed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 spread | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 spread | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fame | det |
| 39 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spread | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 glory | cc |
| 41 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fame | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 glory | nmod |
| 44 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 showered | conj |
| 45 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 46 near | cc:preconj |
| 46 | near | near | ADV | _ | 44 spread | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 far | cc |
| 48 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 near | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | Straightway not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shower | past | Straightway | a shower of gold | the earth | the wishing tree nsubj | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shower=Theme upon earth=Destination | ||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rejoice | past | all living beings | thereat property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | become | past | all living beings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | dispose | participle | all living beings not said here | to Jīmūta vāhana; well property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent to vāhana=Theme | ||||
| 7 | spread | past | the fame and glory of vāhana | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | glory | vāhana | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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