The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 87
And pleased and delighted, she strutted over his shoulders, and passed away according to her deeds.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: strut, pass away, accord · To what, where: shoulders
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 | _ | 2 pleased | cc |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 delighted | cc |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pleased | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strutted | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strutted | nsubj |
| 7 | strutted | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | parataxis |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strutted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 strutted | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 deeds | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 according | fixed |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strut | past | Elephant | Frog's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pass away | participle | Elephant not said here | accord Elephant's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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