The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
Now Prince Dīghāvu went to the forest, wailed and wept his fill, and wiped his tears away.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, wail, weep, wipe away · To what, where: forest, fill, tears
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wailed | punct |
| 9 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wailed | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fill | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wept | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wiped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wiped | cc |
| 16 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tears | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wiped | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 wiped | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | the forest | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wail | past | Prince not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | Prince not said here | Prince's fill | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wipe away | past | Prince not said here | Prince's tears | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
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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