The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 107
Meeting with no one among either indoor-folk or others who said he had a fault, but hearing mentioned only his own good qualities, he went to that region testing the countryside.
Who acts: king, others, hearing, region · What happens: meet, say, have, mention, go, test · To what, where: fault, own good qualities, region, countryside · 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 (king, others, hearing, region), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 went | advcl |
| 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 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 folk | case |
| 6 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 folk | det |
| 7 | indoor | indoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 folk | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 indoor | punct |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meeting | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 others | cc |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 folk | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 others | acl:relcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fault | det |
| 17 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mentioned | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 mentioned | cc |
| 20 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mentioned | nsubj |
| 21 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 qualities | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 qualities | amod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 qualities | amod |
| 26 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mentioned | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meeting | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 region | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 region | det |
| 32 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 33 | testing | test | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 region | acl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 countryside | det |
| 35 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 testing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | king not said here | with no one; among either indoor folk or others | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | king | a fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | past | hearing | king's own good qualities | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | past | king | that region | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to region=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | test | gerund | that region not said here | the countryside | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryside=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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