The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 48
After doing his work, he would descend into the river and play, and then come back.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: do, descend, come back, work · To what, where: work, river
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 doing | mark |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 descend | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 work | nmod:poss |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 descend | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 descend | aux |
| 8 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descend | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 play | cc |
| 13 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 river | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 descend | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | Elephant not said here | Elephant's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | descend | would | Elephant | the river and play | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Location | ||||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | Elephant not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | Elephant | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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