The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 108
Both kings met face to face in a single wagon-track leading through a swamp.
Who acts: kings, single wagon track · What happens: meet, lead · To what, where: face, single wagon track, swamp
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 (kings, single wagon track), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 kings | det |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 track | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 track | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 track | amod |
| 10 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 track | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wagon | punct |
| 12 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 13 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 track | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 swamp | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 swamp | det |
| 16 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leading | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | both kings | face | a single wagon track | to face | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a single wagon track not said here | a swamp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through swamp=Destination |
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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