The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 2
The ascetic is seated at the door of his leaf-hut on the bank of the Ganges.
What happens: seat · To what, where: ascetic, door
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ascetic | det |
| 2 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hut | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hut | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaf | punct |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bank | det |
| 15 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hut | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ganges | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ganges | det |
| 18 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bank | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | present · passive | the ascetic | the door of Dragon's leaf hut on the bank of the Ganges | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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