The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
The Bharahat sculpture represents an elephant being driven along by a troop of monkeys.
Who acts: Bharahat sculpture, troop · What happens: represent, drive · To what, where: elephant
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bharahat sculpture, troop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sculpture | det |
| 2 | Bharahat | Bharahat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sculpture | compound |
| 3 | sculpture | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represents | nsubj |
| 4 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 elephant | det |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 driven | aux:pass |
| 8 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 represents | ccomp |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 driven | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 troop | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 troop | det |
| 12 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driven | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 monkeys | case |
| 14 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 troop | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the Bharahat sculpture | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drive | gerund · passive | a troop of monkeys | a elephant | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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