The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 80
The rat also came, and with a bow handed over to him wealth amounting to thirty crores.
Who acts: rat, bow wealth · What happens: come, hand over, amount · To what, where: bow wealth, bow, rat
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 (rat, bow wealth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wealth | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wealth | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bow | det |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wealth | compound |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bow | acl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 handed | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obl |
| 14 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 15 | amounting | amount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wealth | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 crores | case |
| 17 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 crores | nummod |
| 18 | crores | crore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 amounting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the rat | bow wealth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand over | participle | a bow not said here | rat | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | amount | gerund | bow wealth not said here | to thirty crores | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to crore=Value |
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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