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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 139

They went out by the very path by which the water came in, cleft the stream, and went until they reached the tree-trunk bestridden by the royal prince.

Who acts: crores, water · What happens: go out, come in, cleft, go, reach, bestride · To what, where: stream, tree trunk

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 (crores, water), 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

nsubjcompound:prtcasedetadvmodoblcaseobldetnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctconjdetobjpunctccconjmarknsubjadvcldetcompoundpunctobjaclcasedetamodoblpunctrootTheyPRONwentVERBoutADPbyADPtheDETveryADVpathNOUNbyADPwhichPRONtheDETwaterNOUNcameVERBinADV,PUNCTcleftVERBtheDETstreamNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBuntilSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETtreeNOUN-PUNCTtrunkNOUNbestriddenVERBbyADPtheDETroyalADJprinceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3outoutADP_2 wentcompound:prt
4bybyADP_7 pathcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 pathdet
6veryveryADV_7 pathadvmod
7pathpathNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
8bybyADP_9 whichcase
9whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel12 cameobl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 waterdet
11waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing12 camensubj
12camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 pathacl:relcl
13ininADV_12 cameadvmod
14,,PUNCT_15 cleftpunct
15cleftcleftVERBVerbForm=Inf2 wentconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 streamdet
17streamstreamNOUNNumber=Sing15 cleftobj
18,,PUNCT_20 wentpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 wentcc
20wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
21untiluntilSCONJ_23 reachedmark
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 reachednsubj
23reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 wentadvcl
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 trunkdet
25treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing27 trunkcompound
26--PUNCT_25 treepunct
27trunktrunkNOUNNumber=Sing23 reachedobj
28bestriddenbestrideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 trunkacl
29bybyADP_32 princecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 princedet
31royalroyalADJDegree=Pos32 princeamod
32princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing28 bestriddenobl
33..PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go outpastcrores = croreby the pathvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2come inpastthe waterby the pathvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location
3cleftinfinitivecrores = crore not said herethe streamtree rules
4gopastcrores = crore not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5reachpastcrores = crorethe tree trunkvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
6bestrideparticiplethe tree trunk not said hereby the royal princevn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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