The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 119
One day, desiring to sport in the water, he went to the river-bank with a large retinue.
Who acts: One day, Wicked · What happens: desire, go · To what, where: water, river bank
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 (One day, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 desiring | punct |
| 4 | desiring | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sport | case |
| 6 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desiring | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desiring | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bank | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 river | punct |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 retinue | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 retinue | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 retinue | amod |
| 21 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | gerund | One day not said here | the water | to sport | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | go | past | Wicked | the river bank | day | with a large retinue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location |
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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