The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 107
The thieves, hearing his words, did so.
Who acts: thieves, conjunction · What happens: hear, do, word · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves, conjunction), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thieves | det |
| 2 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearing | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 thieves | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hearing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thieves | punct |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the thieves not said here | conjunction's words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the thieves | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | word | conjunction | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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