The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 98

And the youth was seeking to persuade an old woman who was weeping, to cease her weeping and return whence she had come.

Who acts: youth, old woman · What happens: seek, persuade, weep, cease, return, come · To what, where: old woman, weeping

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 (youth, old woman), 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 seeking	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seeking	aux
5	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 persuade	mark
7	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seeking	xcomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 persuade	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 weeping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weeping	aux
13	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 woman	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cease	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cease	mark
16	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 weeping	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 weeping	nmod:poss
18	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cease	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 return	cc
20	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cease	conj
21	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 return	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seeking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	past · progressive	the youth			tree rules
2	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	a old woman		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
3	weep	past · progressive	a old woman			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cease	to-infinitive		youth's weeping		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality weeping=Eventuality
5	return	present				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past · perfect	youth		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	weep		youth			nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 98

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 98