The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
In drawing the water-pots, the artist has followed the Bharahat sculpture rather than the description given in the text.
What happens: draw, follow, give · To what, where: water pots, artist, description, text
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: 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 drawing | mark |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 followed | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pots | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pots | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drawing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 drawing | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 artist | det |
| 9 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 followed | aux |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sculpture | det |
| 13 | Bharahat | Bharahat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sculpture | compound |
| 14 | sculpture | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obj |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 description | cc |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 rather | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 description | det |
| 18 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sculpture | conj |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 description | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 text | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 text | det |
| 22 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | the water pots | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | present · perfect · passive | the artist | the Bharahat sculpture rather the description obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme sculpture=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | the description not said here | the text | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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