The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
So first he warmed the bodies of the animals; then afterwards he warmed the body of the royal prince and made him well too.
Who acts: weaker · What happens: warm, make · To what, where: bodies, body, weaker
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 (weaker), 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 first | advmod |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 warmed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 warmed | nsubj |
| 4 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 warmed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bodies | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 warmed | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 warmed | advmod |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 14 warmed | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warmed | nsubj |
| 14 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 warmed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warmed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 body | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warmed | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 made | advmod |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | past | weaker = weak | the bodies of the animals | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | |||
| 2 | warm | past | weaker = weak | the body of the royal prince | then | afterwards property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||
| 3 | make | past | weaker = weak not said here | weaker = weak | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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