The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
So he went back, lay down for a little while, and then got up again and took his knife.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: go back, lay down, get up, take · To what, where: knife
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 (Hunter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 while | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 while | amod |
| 11 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 got | advmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Hunter | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Hunter not said here | while | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | get up | past | Hunter not said here | then; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Hunter not said here | Hunter's knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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