The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 116
He had a son named Prince Wicked, and Prince Wicked was as tough and hard as a beaten snake.
Who acts: Benāres, Prince Wicked · What happens: have, name, be, beat · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benāres, Prince Wicked), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | acl |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wicked | compound |
| 7 | Wicked | Wicked | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tough | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tough | cc |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wicked | compound |
| 11 | Wicked | Wicked | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tough | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tough | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 tough | case |
| 14 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hard | cc |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tough | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 snake | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snake | det |
| 19 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 snake | amod |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hard | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Benāres | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a son not said here | Prince Wicked xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Prince Wicked | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Prince Wicked not said here | as a beaten snake | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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