The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 87
For the snake to live in, he caused a golden tube to be made; for the rat, a crystal cave; for the parrot, a golden cage.
Who acts: king · What happens: live in, cause, make · To what, where: golden tube
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 (king), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 snake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | obl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 snake | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tube | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tube | amod |
| 12 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tube | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rat | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 rat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rat | det |
| 19 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cave | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cave | det |
| 22 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cave | amod |
| 23 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rat | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 parrot | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 parrot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 parrot | det |
| 27 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cage | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cage | det |
| 30 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cage | amod |
| 31 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parrot | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | king | a golden tube | for the snake; the rat and a crystal cave parataxis; the parrot and a golden cage parataxis | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tube=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | a golden tube not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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