The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
From that time on the young elephant obeyed the commands of the carpenters, was patient of admonition, performed all of the duties.
Who acts: patient · What happens: obey, be, perform, command · To what, where: commands, patient, all, carpenters · 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 (patient), 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 | 8 obeyed | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 elephant | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elephant | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 elephant | amod |
| 7 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obeyed | obl |
| 8 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 commands | det |
| 10 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obeyed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 carpenters | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carpenters | det |
| 13 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 commands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 patient | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 patient | cop |
| 16 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obeyed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 admonition | case |
| 18 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 patient | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 performed | punct |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 patient | acl:relcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 performed | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 duties | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 duties | det |
| 24 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the commands of the carpenters | time | on the young elephant | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | patient | of admonition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perform | participle | patient not said here | all of the duties | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | the carpenters | nom command «communication 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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