The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 108
The Brahman, noting the conjunction of the moon, recited the charm and looked up at the sky.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: note, recite, look up · To what, where: conjunction, charm
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 (Brahman), 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 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 recited | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noting | punct |
| 4 | noting | note | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Brahman | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 conjunction | det |
| 6 | conjunction | conjunction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noting | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conjunction | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brahman | punct |
| 11 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 charm | det |
| 13 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recited | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 recited | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | gerund | the Brahman not said here | the conjunction of the moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent conjunction=Topic | ||||
| 2 | recite | past | the Brahman | the charm | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | the Brahman not said here | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=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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