The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 53
One day, as he was roaming about with a companion, he came to a wood on the shore of the sea.
Who acts: vāhana · What happens: roam, come · To what, where: One day, shore
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 roaming | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 roaming | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 roaming | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 roaming | aux |
| 7 | roaming | roam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 roaming | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 companion | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 companion | det |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roaming | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shore | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | past · progressive | vāhana | One day not said here | with a companion; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | vāhana | the shore of the sea | day | to a wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=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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