The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 61
And threatening him, she uttered the fourth stanza:
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: threaten, utter · To what, where: Brahmadatta, fourth 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 uttered | cc |
| 2 | threatening | threaten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 uttered | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threatening | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 threatening | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 uttered | nsubj |
| 6 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stanza | det |
| 8 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 stanza | amod |
| 9 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uttered | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | gerund | Elephant not said here | Brahmadatta | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Elephant | the fourth stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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