The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
And making the forest ring, proclaiming the Truth, the tree-spirit uttered the following stanza:
Who acts: tree spirit · What happens: make, proclaim, utter, follow · To what, where: forest ring, Truth, stanza
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 (tree spirit), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 making | cc |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | compound |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proclaiming | punct |
| 7 | proclaiming | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 making | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Truth | det |
| 9 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 proclaiming | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 uttered | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uttered | nsubj |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Truth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stanza | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stanza | case |
| 18 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uttered | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the forest ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | |||||
| 2 | proclaim | gerund | the Truth | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | the tree spirit | the stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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