The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 133
So girding on his sword, he sat watching for his companion to return.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: gird, sit, watch, return · To what, where: sword
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 (fellow), 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 | _ | 2 girding | advmod |
| 2 | girding | gird | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sat | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girding | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girding | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sat | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 companion | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watching | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 return | mark |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watching | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | gerund | fellow not said here | fellow's sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | fellow not said here | for fellow's companion | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for companion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | fellow not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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