The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
Thus did that tree-spirit, making the forest ring, proclaim the Truth.
What happens: do, make, proclaim · To what, where: tree spirit, forest ring, Truth
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spirit | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ring | compound |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proclaim | punct |
| 13 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 making | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Truth | det |
| 15 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 proclaim | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | that tree spirit | thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the forest ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | |||||
| 3 | proclaim | infinitive | the Truth | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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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