The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 92
Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up and put him on his shoulders and cried and wept.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: caress, lift up, put, cry, weep · To what, where: Future Buddha, Elephant, shoulders
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 caressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caressed | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 trunk | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elephant | nmod |
| 7 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 9 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Buddha | compound |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 caressed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caressed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lifted | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lifted | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shoulders | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cried | cc |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lifted | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wept | cc |
| 24 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cried | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | the elephant with Elephant's trunk | the Future Buddha | then | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | lift up | past | the elephant with Elephant's trunk not said here | Elephant | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the elephant with Elephant's trunk not said here | Elephant | Elephant's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the elephant with Elephant's trunk not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | weep | past | the elephant with Elephant's trunk not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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