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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 27

Then, marking all of the timbers, beginning with the pillars, they would carry them to the river-bank, load them on a boat, return to the city with the current, and for a price build for any particular person any particular kind of house he desired to have built.

Who acts: carpenters, person · What happens: mark, begin, carry, load, return, desire · To what, where: all, pillars, river bank, carpenters, boat, particular kind

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 (carpenters, person), 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

advmodpunctadvclobjcasedetnmodpunctconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjauxobjcasedetcompoundpunctoblpunctconjobjcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctcccasedetcompoundparataxiscasedetamodnmoddetamodobjcasenmodnsubjacl:relclmarkauxxcomppunctrootThenADV,PUNCTmarkingVERBallDETofADPtheDETtimbersNOUN,PUNCTbeginningVERBwithADPtheDETpillarsNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONwouldAUXcarryVERBthemPRONtoADPtheDETriverNOUN-PUNCTbankNOUN,PUNCTloadVERBthemPRONonADPaDETboatNOUN,PUNCTreturnVERBtoADPtheDETcityNOUNwithADPtheDETcurrentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJforADPaDETpriceNOUNbuildNOUNforADPanyDETparticularADJpersonNOUNanyDETparticularADJkindNOUNofADPhouseNOUNhePRONdesiredVERBtoPARThaveAUXbuiltVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 markingadvmod
2,,PUNCT_3 markingpunct
3markingmarkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 carryadvcl
4allallDETPronType=Tot3 markingobj
5ofofADP_7 timberscase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 timbersdet
7timberstimberNOUNNumber=Plur4 allnmod
8,,PUNCT_9 beginningpunct
9beginningbeginVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 markingconj
10withwithADP_12 pillarscase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 pillarsdet
12pillarspillarNOUNNumber=Plur9 beginningobl
13,,PUNCT_3 markingpunct
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 carrynsubj
15wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin16 carryaux
16carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
17themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 carryobj
18totoADP_22 bankcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 bankdet
20riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing22 bankcompound
21--PUNCT_20 riverpunct
22bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing16 carryobl
23,,PUNCT_24 loadpunct
24loadloadVERBVerbForm=Inf16 carryconj
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 loadobj
26ononADP_28 boatcase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 boatdet
28boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing24 loadobl
29,,PUNCT_30 returnpunct
30returnreturnVERBVerbForm=Inf16 carryconj
31totoADP_33 citycase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 citydet
33citycityNOUNNumber=Sing30 returnobl
34withwithADP_36 currentcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 currentdet
36currentcurrentNOUNNumber=Sing33 citynmod
37,,PUNCT_42 buildpunct
38andandCCONJ_42 buildcc
39forforADP_42 buildcase
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 builddet
41pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing42 buildcompound
42buildbuildNOUNNumber=Sing16 carryparataxis
43forforADP_46 personcase
44anyanyDETPronType=Ind46 persondet
45particularparticularADJDegree=Pos46 personamod
46personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing42 buildnmod
47anyanyDETPronType=Ind49 kinddet
48particularparticularADJDegree=Pos49 kindamod
49kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing53 desiredobj
50ofofADP_51 housecase
51househouseNOUNNumber=Sing49 kindnmod
52hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs53 desirednsubj
53desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin46 personacl:relcl
54totoPART_56 builtmark
55havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf56 builtaux
56builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part53 desiredxcomp
57..PUNCT_16 carrypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1markgerundcarpenters = carpenter not said hereall of the timbersthenvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent all=Destination
2begingerundcarpenters = carpenter not said herewith the pillarsvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with pillar=Subeventuality
3carrywouldcarpenters = carpenterpillars = pillarthe river banka price build for any particular person parataxisvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bank=Destination
4loadinfinitivecarpenters = carpenter not said herecarpenters = carpentera boatvn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on boat=Destination
5returninfinitivecarpenters = carpenter not said hereto the city with the current resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result
6desirepastpersonany particular kind of housetree rules
7build not said to happento-infinitive · perfectperson not said herevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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