The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
When the hunter returned to that spot and saw nothing at all, he took the tattered sack and went to his own house in deep dejection.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: return, see, take, tatter, go · To what, where: nothing, all, tattered sack, deep dejection
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sack | det |
| 17 | tattered | tatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sack | amod |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dejection | case |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dejection | amod |
| 27 | dejection | dejection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the hunter | to that spot result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to spot=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the hunter not said here | nothing | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | take | past | Hunter | the tattered sack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tatter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | Hunter not said here | deep dejection | to Hunter's own house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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