The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 36
First he went to the snake, and standing not far off, called him out, saying, “Longfellow!”
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: go, stand, call out, say · To what, where: Buddha, Longfellow · 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 (Buddha), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 standing | cc |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 off | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 off | advmod |
| 12 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 standing | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 called | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Longfellow | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Longfellow | punct |
| 21 | Longfellow | longfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Longfellow | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Longfellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Buddha | to the snake; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to snake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Buddha not said here | off property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | Buddha not said here | Buddha | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Buddha not said here | Longfellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent longfellow=Topic |
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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