The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 64
He caused the elephant to make rightwise circuit of the city and to be taken into the elephant-stable.
Who acts: king, elephant · What happens: cause, make, take · To what, where: elephant, rightwise circuit, elephant stable
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caused | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 caused | xcomp |
| 7 | rightwise | rightwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 circuit | amod |
| 8 | circuit | circuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 circuit | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taken | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 make | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 stable | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stable | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stable | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 elephant | punct |
| 20 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | king | the elephant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the elephant not said here | rightwise circuit of the city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | the elephant not said here | the elephant stable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into stable=Destination |
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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