The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 110
By stepping outside of the circle, a dicer “broke” the play-ring and stopped the play.
Who acts: dicer · What happens: step, break, stop · To what, where: circle, play ring, play
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dicer), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 stepping | mark |
| 2 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 broke | advcl |
| 3 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 6 circle | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 circle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 circle | det |
| 6 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepping | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dicer | det |
| 9 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 14 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ring | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 play | punct |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 broke | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 play | det |
| 20 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | a dicer not said here | the circle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside circle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | past | a dicer | the play ring | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | a dicer not said here | the play | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality |
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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