The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 44
So he went back, lay down until the dawn came up, and when it was dawn, took his knife and went out.
Who acts: bird, dawn, mind · What happens: go back, lay down, come up, be, take, go out · To what, where: dawn, 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 (bird, dawn, mind), 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 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dawn | det |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 dawn | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dawn | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dawn | cop |
| 18 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dawn | punct |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 knife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | bird | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | bird not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the dawn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | mind | dawn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | dawn | bird's knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go out | past | dawn not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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