The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
Then, cleaving the stream of water, he went and laid hold of that tree-trunk by one end, and pulled it.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: cleave, go, lay, pull, hold · To what, where: stream, hold, tree trunk
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cleaving | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | cleaving | cleave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cleaving | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stream | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cleaving | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trunk | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 trunk | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trunk | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 end | nummod |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pulled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pulled | cc |
| 24 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pulled | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cleave | gerund | Buddha not said here | the stream of water | then | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Buddha | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | Buddha not said here | hold of that tree trunk | by one end | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by end=Destination | |||
| 4 | pull | past | Buddha not said here | hold | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | that tree trunk | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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