The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 19
Thus did those three live together as friends, kindly affectionate one towards another.
Who acts: three · What happens: do, live together · To what, where: those
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 (three), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 those | acl:relcl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 11 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 did | conj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | those | affectionate one towards another conj; thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live together | present | three | as friends; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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