The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 105
Meeting with no one who said he had a fault, but hearing mentioned only his good qualities, he turned back from the frontier and started back for the city on the highway.
Who acts: place, hearing · What happens: meet, say, have, mention, turn back, start back · To what, where: fault, good qualities, frontier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, hearing), 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 | Meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meeting | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fault | det |
| 10 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mentioned | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 mentioned | cc |
| 13 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mentioned | nsubj |
| 14 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 qualities | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 qualities | amod |
| 18 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mentioned | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 frontier | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 frontier | det |
| 25 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 started | cc |
| 27 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 started | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 city | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 started | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 highway | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 highway | det |
| 34 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 city | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | with no one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | place | a fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | past | hearing | place's good qualities | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quality=Topic | ||||
| 5 | turn back | past | place | the frontier | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from frontier=Source | ||||
| 6 | start back | past | place not said here | for the city on the highway | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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