The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 107
When the net was thrown over them on the following day, they raised the net precisely as the Future Buddha had told them to, dropped it on a certain thorn-brake, and themselves escaped from under.
Who acts: Quail, Future Buddha · What happens: throw, follow, raise, tell, drop, escape · To what, where: net, Quail, certain thorn brake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quail, Future 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 thrown | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 net | det |
| 3 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 raised | advcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thrown | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 raised | nsubj |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 net | det |
| 16 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obj |
| 17 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 23 told | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 told | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Buddha | det |
| 20 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Buddha | compound |
| 21 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 told | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 raised | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 told | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dropped | punct |
| 27 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dropped | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 brake | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 brake | det |
| 31 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 brake | amod |
| 32 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brake | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 thorn | punct |
| 34 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dropped | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 escaped | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 escaped | cc |
| 37 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 escaped | nsubj |
| 38 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | conj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 escaped | obl |
| 40 | under | under | ADP | _ | 39 from | fixed |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the net | day | over Quail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | raise | past | Quail | the net | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the Future Buddha | Quail | precisely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 5 | drop | past | net | a certain thorn brake | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on brake=Destination | ||||
| 6 | escape | past | Quail | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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