The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 85
And going to the brink of the precipice, he tumbled and fell to the foot of the mountain, and met destruction.
Who acts: Frog · What happens: go, tumble, fall, meet · To what, where: brink, destruction
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 (Frog), 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 | _ | 11 tumbled | cc |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tumbled | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 brink | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brink | det |
| 5 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 precipice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 precipice | det |
| 8 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brink | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 going | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tumbled | nsubj |
| 11 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tumbled | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tumbled | conj |
| 23 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | Frog not said here | the brink of the precipice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tumble | past | Frog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Frog not said here | to the foot of the mountain | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | Frog not said here | destruction | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-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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