The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 108
After a time, perceiving that there was contamination in the herd, he isolated himself from the herd and made his home quite alone in the forest.
Who acts: time, contamination · What happens: perceive, be, isolate, make · To what, where: contamination, herd, home, forest
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, contamination), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 isolated | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceiving | punct |
| 5 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 time | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceiving | ccomp |
| 9 | contamination | contamination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 herd | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contamination | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 isolated | nsubj |
| 15 | isolated | isolate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 isolated | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 herd | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 herd | det |
| 19 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 isolated | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 isolated | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 alone | advmod |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 isolated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | a time not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | contamination in the herd | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | isolate | past | contamination | contamination | the herd | time | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Patient from herd=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | make | past | contamination not said here | Buddha's home | the forest | alone property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |
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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