The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
From that time on he helped the carpenters remove trees, rolled them over and held them for the carpenters while they were fashioning them, brought them their tools, and held the measuring-cord, taking it by the end and wrapping his trunk about it.
Who acts: Elephant, carpenters · What happens: help, remove, roll over, hold, fashion, bring · To what, where: carpenters, trees, remedies, measuring cord, cord, trunk
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 (Elephant, carpenters), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remove | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 he | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 helped | nsubj |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carpenters | det |
| 8 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 helped | obj |
| 9 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remove | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rolled | punct |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remove | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rolled | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 rolled | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 carpenters | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 carpenters | det |
| 20 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 fashioning | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fashioning | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fashioning | aux |
| 24 | fashioning | fashion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 held | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fashioning | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tools | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 brought | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 held | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 held | cc |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cord | det |
| 35 | measuring | measuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cord | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 measuring | punct |
| 37 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 held | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 taking | punct |
| 39 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 held | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 taking | obj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 end | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 end | det |
| 43 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taking | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wrapping | cc |
| 45 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 taking | conj |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 47 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wrapping | obj |
| 48 | about | about | ADP | _ | 49 it | case |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 wrapping | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Elephant | the carpenters | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpenter=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | remove | present | trees | time | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll over | past | carpenters = carpenter | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold | past | carpenters = carpenter | for the carpenters | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fashion | past · progressive | carpenters = carpenter | remedies = remedy | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | carpenters = carpenter | carpenters's tools obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination tool=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hold | past | the measuring cord | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | |||||
| 8 | take | gerund | cord | by the end | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | wrap | gerund | Elephant's trunk | about cord | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme about it=Destination |
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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