The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 131
The king caused the gates to be flung open, went to the river-bank, and caused them to search here and there.
Who acts: king, gates · What happens: cause, fling, go, search · To what, where: gates, 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 (king, gates), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gates | det |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 flung | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flung | aux:pass |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caused | advcl |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flung | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bank | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 river | punct |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caused | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caused | cc |
| 19 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caused | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 search | mark |
| 22 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 caused | xcomp |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 search | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 there | cc |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 here | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the king | the gates | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition gate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fling | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | open property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the king not said here | the river bank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | gates = gate | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | search | to-infinitive | gates = gate not said here | here; there | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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