The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 137
Yet another had buried thirty crores of wealth in that very spot, and by reason of his craving for that wealth, had been reborn on the spot as a rat.
Who acts: reason, treasurer · What happens: bury, reborn, crave · To what, where: another, spot
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 (reason, treasurer), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 buried | cc |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 crores | nummod |
| 6 | crores | crore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 buried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wealth | case |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crores | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 spot | advmod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reborn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reborn | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 reason | case |
| 16 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reborn | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 craving | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 craving | nmod:poss |
| 19 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reason | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 wealth | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wealth | det |
| 22 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 craving | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reason | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 reborn | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 reborn | aux:pass |
| 26 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 buried | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reborn | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 rat | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rat | det |
| 32 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spot | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · perfect · passive | another | that spot | thirty crores of wealth obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme crore=Destination | |||
| 2 | reborn | past · perfect · passive | reason of treasurer's craving for that wealth | the spot as a rat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crave | treasurer | for that wealth | nom craving «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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