The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 116
It was he who, by looking up at the sky, caused a Rain of Riches; he is the man who gave us this wealth.”
Who acts: money, Brahman, man · What happens: be, look up, cause, give, rain · To what, where: Rain, man, wealth, us, Riches
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 (money, Brahman, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 who | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 who | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 who | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 looking | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 who | punct |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Rain | det |
| 15 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Riches | case |
| 17 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Rain | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 wealth | det |
| 27 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | money | Brahman nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | money not said here | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | a Rain of Riches | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Brahman | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | past | the man | this wealth | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient wealth=Theme | |||
| 6 | rain | Riches | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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