The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 136
So when the porridge was done, he ate some himself, put poison in the rest, and then took it and went to the thicket.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: do, eat, put, take, go · To what, where: porridge, poison, rest, thicket
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 | _ | 9 ate | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 done | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 porridge | det |
| 4 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ate | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ate | nsubj |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 himself | nsubj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 ate | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ate | conj |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 took | advmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ate | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 thicket | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thicket | det |
| 27 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the porridge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | fellow | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | fellow not said here | poison | the rest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in rest=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past | fellow not said here | poison | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | past | fellow not said here | the thicket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=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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