The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 8
So first the cub ate some of the flesh of the wise boar, and then the lion began to eat.
Who acts: cub, lion · What happens: eat, begin · To what, where: some
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 (cub, lion), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 ate | advmod |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 ate | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cub | det |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 ate | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flesh | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flesh | det |
| 9 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boar | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boar | amod |
| 13 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flesh | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 began | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ate | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the cub | some of the flesh of the wise boar | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the lion | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the lion not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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