The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 99
When he perceived that they had assembled, he would throw a net over them and huddle them all together by trampling the edges.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: perceive, assemble, throw, huddle, trample · To what, where: Quail, net, edges
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 (Buddha), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 assembled | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assembled | aux |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 throw | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 assembled | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | aux |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 perceived | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 net | det |
| 13 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throw | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 huddle | cc |
| 17 | huddle | huddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 throw | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 huddle | obj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 together | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 huddle | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 trampling | mark |
| 22 | trampling | trample | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 huddle | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edges | det |
| 24 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trampling | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Buddha | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | assemble | past · perfect · passive | Quail | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw | would | Buddha | a net | over Quail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 4 | huddle | infinitive | Buddha not said here | Quail | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 5 | trample | gerund | Buddha not said here | the edges | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/99/