The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
When he brought food also, he first gave it to those same animals, and afterwards offered fruits and other edibles to the prince.
Who acts: weaker · What happens: bring, give, offer · To what, where: food, same animals, fruits, prince
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | advcl |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 animals | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 offered | cc |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 offered | advmod |
| 18 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gave | conj |
| 19 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 offered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 edibles | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 edibles | amod |
| 22 | edibles | edible | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fruits | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | weaker = weak | food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | weaker = weak | food | that same animals | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to animal=Recipient | ||
| 3 | offer | participle | weaker = weak not said here | fruits and other edibles | the prince | afterwards property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to prince=Goal |
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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