The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
One day, not far from the camp where they were fashioning timbers, a certain elephant trod on an acacia splinter, and the splinter pierced his foot.
Who acts: carpenters, certain elephant, splinter · What happens: fashion, tread, pierce · To what, where: timbers, acacia splinter, foot
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, certain elephant, splinter), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trod | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 camp | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 camp | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 camp | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | parataxis |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 fashioning | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fashioning | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fashioning | aux |
| 12 | fashioning | fashion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 camp | advcl |
| 13 | timbers | timber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fashioning | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 16 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 elephant | amod |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trod | nsubj |
| 18 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 splinter | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 splinter | det |
| 21 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 splinter | compound |
| 22 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trod | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pierced | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pierced | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 splinter | det |
| 26 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pierced | nsubj |
| 27 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trod | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 foot | nmod:poss |
| 29 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pierced | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fashion | past · progressive | carpenters = carpenter | timbers | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Product | ||||
| 2 | tread | past | a certain elephant | a acacia splinter | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on splinter=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pierce | past | the splinter | splinter's foot | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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