The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
Seeing the snake, the rat, and the parrot, he picked them up also, carried them to his hermitage, and lighted a fire.
Who acts: parrot · What happens: see, pick up, carry, light · To what, where: snake, hermitage, fire
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 (parrot), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 picked | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rat | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rat | det |
| 6 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snake | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 parrot | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 parrot | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 picked | nsubj |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 picked | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 picked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 picked | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 hermitage | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lighted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lighted | cc |
| 25 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 carried | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lighted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | parrot not said here | the snake and the rat | the parrot obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pick up | past | parrot | snake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | snake | parrot's hermitage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to hermitage=Destination | ||||
| 4 | light | participle | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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