The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 97
And by his side stood an officer of some monarch, as if he had brought him and left him there.
Who acts: vāhana · What happens: stand, bring, leave · To what, where: officer, resolution, vāhana
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 side | nmod:poss |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 officer | det |
| 7 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 monarch | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 monarch | det |
| 10 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 officer | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 brought | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 brought | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 left | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a officer of some monarch | by vāhana's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent officer=Theme by side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | vāhana | resolution | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | vāhana | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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