The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 140
Thereupon one climbed up on one end, the other on the other, and both lay down right there on top of the tree-trunk.
Who acts: both · What happens: climb up, lay down · To what, where: one, one end, top
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 (both), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 end | nummod |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 other | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 end | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 climbed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 there | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 trunk | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trunk | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trunk | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 tree | punct |
| 27 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 top | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | participle · passive | one | on one end | on the other; thereupon property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay down | present | both | top of the tree trunk; there | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |
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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