The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
The young elephant, playing in the river, on hearing the sound of the drum, went and stood by the carpenters.
Who acts: young elephant · What happens: play, hear, go, stand · To what, where: river, sound
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 (young 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 elephant | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 playing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearing | punct |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 hearing | mark |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 playing | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hearing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 drum | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drum | det |
| 16 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sound | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 elephant | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 carpenters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carpenters | det |
| 23 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | the young elephant not said here | the river | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the young elephant not said here | the sound of the drum | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the young elephant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the young elephant not said here | by the carpenters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by carpenter=Location |
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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