The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 49
And the carpenters’ children used to take hold of him by the trunk and play with him, both in the water and on dry land.
Who acts: carpenters · What happens: ', use, take, play, hold · To what, where: children, water, hold, Elephant
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ’ | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carpenters | det |
| 3 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ’ | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ’ | obj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 children | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 trunk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trunk | det |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 play | cc |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 play | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 water | punct |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 water | cc:preconj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ’ | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 land | cc |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 26 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 land | amod |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | present | the carpenters | children | the water and dry land | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | children not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | hold of Elephant | by the trunk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | with Elephant | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | hold | Elephant | nom hold «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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