The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
The illustration to Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, represents the pampered prince astride of a tree-trunk, accompanied by his three companions, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, swept along by the river amid storm and darkness.
Who acts: illustration · What happens: represent, pamper, accompany, sweep along · To what, where: pampered prince, tree trunk, parrot
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 (illustration), 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 | 2 illustration | det |
| 2 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | nmod |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 animals | punct |
| 8 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 illustration | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 11 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 animals | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 animals | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 15 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 17 | pampered | pamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | obj |
| 19 | astride | astride | ADP | _ | 24 trunk | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 trunk | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 trunk | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trunk | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tree | punct |
| 24 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 accompanied | punct |
| 26 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 trunk | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 companions | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 companions | nmod:poss |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 companions | nummod |
| 30 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 accompanied | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 snake | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 snake | det |
| 33 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 companions | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rat | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 rat | det |
| 36 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 companions | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 parrot | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 parrot | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 parrot | det |
| 40 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 swept | punct |
| 42 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 parrot | acl |
| 43 | along | along | ADV | _ | 42 swept | advmod |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 storm | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 storm | det |
| 46 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 storm | compound |
| 47 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 storm | amod |
| 48 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 swept | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 darkness | cc |
| 50 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 storm | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the illustration to Story | the pampered prince | astride a tree trunk; a parrot parataxis | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | pamper | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | a tree trunk not said here | by man's three companions and a snake and a rat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by companion=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sweep along | participle | a parrot not said here | by the river amid storm and darkness; along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by storm=Trajectory |
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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