The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 51
The solitary elephant, hearing her words, uttered the third stanza:
Who acts: solitary elephant, Elephant · What happens: hear, utter, word · To what, where: words, third 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 (solitary elephant, Elephant), 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 | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 elephant | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 elephant | punct |
| 9 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stanza | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 stanza | amod |
| 12 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uttered | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the solitary elephant not said here | Elephant's words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the solitary elephant | the third stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | ||||
| 3 | word | Elephant | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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