The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 129
So saying, he took leave of him and went back to his own place of abode.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, take, leave, go back · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 abode | case |
| 17 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | man | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | man not said here | of man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | man not said here | to man's own place of abode result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=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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