The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
A few days after that, when all four had recovered their strength and vigor and the river-freshet had ceased, the snake bowed to the ascetic and said: “Reverend Sir, it is a great service you have done me.
Who acts: freshet, you · What happens: recover, cease, bow, say, be, do · To what, where: four, river freshet, snake, great service, me · 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 (freshet, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 recovered | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 days | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recovered | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 recovered | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 four | det |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 recovered | aux |
| 11 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recovered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vigor | cc |
| 15 | vigor | vigor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strength | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ceased | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 freshet | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 freshet | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 river | punct |
| 20 | freshet | freshet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ceased | aux |
| 22 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 strength | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 snake | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snake | det |
| 25 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strength | conj |
| 26 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 snake | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 ascetic | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ascetic | det |
| 29 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bowed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 recovered | conj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 Sir | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Sir | punct |
| 34 | Reverend | Reverend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Sir | compound |
| 35 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 said | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 service | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 service | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 service | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 service | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 service | amod |
| 41 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Sir | appos |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 service | acl |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 done | iobj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect · passive | all four | day | animals's strength and vigor and the snake obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cease | past · perfect · passive | the river freshet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bow | participle | the snake not said here | to the ascetic | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ascetic=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Reverend Sir ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | freshet | a great service | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | a great service not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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