The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 61
When the griffin, the son of Vinatā, heard of that, he came and tried to induce Kadrū to release Vinatā from slavery.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: hear, come, try, induce, release · To what, where: Kadrū, Vinatā, slavery
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 (griffin), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 griffin | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Vinatā | case |
| 8 | Vinatā | Vinatā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 griffin | punct |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tried | cc |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 induce | mark |
| 19 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | xcomp |
| 20 | Kadrū | Kadrū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 induce | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 release | mark |
| 22 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 induce | xcomp |
| 23 | Vinatā | Vinatā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 release | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 slavery | case |
| 25 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 release | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the griffin | of that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Griffin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Griffin not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | induce not said to happen | to-infinitive | Griffin not said here | Kadrū | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kadrū=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | release | to-infinitive | Griffin not said here | Vinatā | slavery | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer vinatā=Source |
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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