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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 134

As a matter of fact, in the darkness caused by the cloud, while the god was raining, the prince, swept along by the river, seeing a certain tree-trunk, clambered on it, and sitting astride of it, traveled along, terrified with the fear of death, lamenting.

Who acts: god, fact · What happens: cause, rain, sweep along, see, clamber, sit · To what, where: darkness, prince, certain tree trunk, trunk, death

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 (god, fact), 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

casedetcasenmodpunctcasedetconjaclcasedetoblpunctmarkdetnsubjauxparataxispunctdetparataxispunctacladvmodcasedetoblpunctconjdetamodcompoundpunctobjpunctaclcaseoblpunctccconjcasecaseoblpunctparataxisadvmodpunctconjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctconjpunctrootAsADPaDETmatterNOUNofADPfactNOUN,PUNCTinADPtheDETdarknessNOUNcausedVERBbyADPtheDETcloudNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheDETgodNOUNwasAUXrainingVERB,PUNCTtheDETprinceNOUN,PUNCTsweptVERBalongADVbyADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTseeingVERBaDETcertainADJtreeNOUN-PUNCTtrunkNOUN,PUNCTclamberedVERBonADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJsittingVERBastrideADPofADPitPRON,PUNCTtraveledVERBalongADV,PUNCTterrifiedADJwithADPtheDETfearNOUNofADPdeathNOUN,PUNCTlamentingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADP_3 mattercase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 matterdet
3mattermatterNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4ofofADP_5 factcase
5factfactNOUNNumber=Sing3 matternmod
6,,PUNCT_9 darknesspunct
7ininADP_9 darknesscase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 darknessdet
9darknessdarknessNOUNNumber=Sing3 matterconj
10causedcauseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 darknessacl
11bybyADP_13 cloudcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 clouddet
13cloudcloudNOUNNumber=Sing10 causedobl
14,,PUNCT_19 rainingpunct
15whilewhileSCONJ_19 rainingmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 goddet
17godgodNOUNNumber=Sing19 rainingnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 rainingaux
19rainingrainVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 causedparataxis
20,,PUNCT_22 princepunct
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 princedet
22princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing19 rainingparataxis
23,,PUNCT_24 sweptpunct
24sweptsweepVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 princeacl
25alongalongADV_24 sweptadvmod
26bybyADP_28 rivercase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 riverdet
28riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing24 sweptobl
29,,PUNCT_30 seeingpunct
30seeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 rainingconj
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 trunkdet
32certaincertainADJDegree=Pos35 trunkamod
33treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing35 trunkcompound
34--PUNCT_33 treepunct
35trunktrunkNOUNNumber=Sing30 seeingobj
36,,PUNCT_37 clamberedpunct
37clamberedclamberVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass35 trunkacl
38ononADP_39 itcase
39ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 clamberedobl
40,,PUNCT_42 sittingpunct
41andandCCONJ_42 sittingcc
42sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 rainingconj
43astrideastrideADP_45 itcase
44ofofADP_45 itcase
45ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs42 sittingobl
46,,PUNCT_47 traveledpunct
47traveledtravelVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 sittingparataxis
48alongalongADV_47 traveledadvmod
49,,PUNCT_50 terrifiedpunct
50terrifiedterrifiedADJDegree=Pos47 traveledconj
51withwithADP_53 fearcase
52thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 feardet
53fearfearNOUNNumber=Sing50 terrifiedobl
54ofofADP_55 deathcase
55deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing53 fearnmod
56,,PUNCT_57 lamentingpunct
57lamentinglamentVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 rainingconj
58..PUNCT_3 matterpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1causeparticiplethe darkness not said hereby the cloudvn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2rainpast · progressivethe godthe prince parataxisvn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3sweep alongparticiplethe prince not said hereby the river; along propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory
4seegerundthe god not said herea certain tree trunkvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunk=Stimulus
5clamberparticiplea certain tree trunk not said heretrunkvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
6sitgerundthe god not said heretrunkvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent astride it=Location
7travelparticiplealong propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8lamentgerundthe god not said herevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
10matterfactnom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
11feardeathnom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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