The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 65
He adorned the elephant with all the adornments, sprinkled him, made him his riding-animal, elevated him to the dignity of a friend, gave him half his kingdom, and had him treated as himself.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: adorn, sprinkle, make, elevate, give, have · To what, where: elephant, riding animal, dignity, kingdom
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 adorned | nsubj |
| 2 | adorned | adorn | 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 adorned | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 adornments | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 adornments | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 adornments | det |
| 8 | adornments | adornment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 elephant | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprinkled | punct |
| 10 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sprinkled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 animal | nmod:poss |
| 16 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 animal | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 riding | punct |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 elevated | punct |
| 20 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 elevated | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 dignity | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dignity | det |
| 24 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elevated | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 friend | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dignity | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 elevated | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 33 kingdom | det:predet |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 had | cc |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | obj |
| 38 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 had | xcomp |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 himself | case |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 treated | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 adorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | past | Elephant | the elephant | with all adornments | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent elephant=Destination with adornment=Theme | |||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | Elephant not said here | Elephant | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Elephant not said here | Elephant's riding animal | Elephant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary animal=Product | |||
| 4 | elevate | past | Elephant | the dignity of a friend | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dignity=Destination | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Elephant's kingdom | Elephant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Elephant not said here | Elephant | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | treat | participle | Elephant not said here | as Elephant | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as himself=Attribute |
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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