The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 142
That tree also, its roots washed by the water, fell on top of the river.
Who acts: tree · What happens: wash, fall · To what, where: roots, 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 (tree), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 tree | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 roots | punct |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 roots | nmod:poss |
| 6 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tree | conj |
| 7 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 roots | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tree | punct |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | participle | tree's roots not said here | by the water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | that tree and tree's roots | top of the river | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
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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