The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 95
As the elephant went out of the city, he trumpeted the Heron’s Call, making the multitude tremble and quake, and frightening them away.
Who acts: elephant, Heron · What happens: go out, trumpet, make, call · To what, where: city, Call, multitude tremble · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Heron), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trumpeted | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trumpeted | nsubj |
| 11 | trumpeted | trumpet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Heron | det |
| 13 | Heron | Heron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Call | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Heron | case |
| 15 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trumpeted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 trumpeted | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tremble | det |
| 19 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tremble | compound |
| 20 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 quake | cc |
| 22 | quake | quake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tremble | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 frightening | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 frightening | cc |
| 25 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trumpeted | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 frightening | nsubj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 frightening | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 trumpeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the elephant | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trumpet | past | Elephant | the Heron's Call | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Elephant not said here | the multitude tremble and quake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product | ||||
| 4 | call | the Heron | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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