The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 15
Thereupon a rain of flowers fell from the sky, and the drums of the gods resounded with approbation.
Who acts: rain, drums · What happens: fall, resound, rain · To what, where: sky, flowers
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 (rain, drums), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rain | det |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flowers | case |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rain | nmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resounded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 resounded | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drums | det |
| 13 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 resounded | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drums | nmod |
| 17 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fell | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 approbation | case |
| 19 | approbation | approbation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resounded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a rain of flowers | the sky | thereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | resound | participle | the drums of the gods | with approbation | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with approbation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rain | flowers | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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