The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
The king made haste up the river with boats and rafts; with rafts bound up-stream he reached the place of abode of the carpenters.
Who acts: king, rafts · What happens: make, haste up, bind up, reach · To what, where: king, river, stream, place
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 (king, rafts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haste | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | haste | haste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 haste | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haste | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 boats | case |
| 9 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 haste | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rafts | cc |
| 11 | rafts | raft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boats | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 rafts | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rafts | case |
| 14 | rafts | raft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 haste | parataxis |
| 15 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rafts | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 stream | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 18 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bound | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stream | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 abode | case |
| 24 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 carpenters | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 carpenters | det |
| 27 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 abode | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the king not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | haste up | infinitive | the king | the river | with boats and rafts; rafts parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bind up | participle | rafts not said here | stream | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | king | the place of abode of the carpenters | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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