The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
Maddened with pain, hearing the sound of those carpenters fashioning timbers, thinking to himself, “With the help of these carpenters I can get relief,” he went to them on three feet and lay down not far off.
Who acts: carpenters, I, Elephant · What happens: madden, hear, fashion, think, get, go · To what, where: sound, timbers, Elephant, relief, carpenters, three feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, Elephant), 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 | Maddened | madden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 pain | case |
| 3 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maddened | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Maddened | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 carpenters | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 carpenters | det |
| 10 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sound | nmod |
| 11 | fashioning | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 carpenters | acl |
| 12 | timbers | timber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fashioning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hearing | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 thinking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 19 | With | with | ADP | _ | 21 help | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 help | det |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 carpenters | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 carpenters | det |
| 24 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 help | nmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thinking | ccomp |
| 28 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinking | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 feet | case |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 feet | nummod |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lay | cc |
| 39 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 went | conj |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 lay | compound:prt |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 far | advmod |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 off | advmod |
| 43 | off | off | ADV | _ | 39 lay | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maddened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | madden | participle | with pain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the sound of that carpenters | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fashion | gerund | that carpenters not said here | timbers | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Product | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Elephant | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | can | I | relief | with the help of this carpenters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relief=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | go | past | Elephant | carpenters = carpenter | three feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | lay down | infinitive | Elephant not said here | off property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | help in a quote | this carpenters | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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