The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
Now if the elephant had known that the king was dead, it would have broken his heart then and there.
Who acts: king · What happens: know, be, break · To what, where: elephant, Buddha
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 known | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 known | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dead | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 broken | aux |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 known | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | obj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 broken | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 then | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect · passive | the elephant | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the king | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | would · perfect · passive | Buddha | there | then | king's heart obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient heart=Result |
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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