The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 125
So saying, they plunged him into the water, made their way out of the water again, and stood on the bank.
Who acts: fellows · What happens: say, plunge, make, stand · To what, where: cloud, water, way, bank · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fellows), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 plunged | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 plunged | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plunged | nsubj |
| 5 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plunged | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plunged | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plunged | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | fellows = fellow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plunge | past | fellows = fellow | cloud | the water | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | fellows = fellow not said here | fellows's way | the water | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | ||
| 4 | stand | past | fellows = fellow not said here | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=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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