The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 145
Then he gathered firewood, built a pyre, cremated his teacher, and honored him with forest-flowers.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: gather, build, cremate, honor · To what, where: firewood, pyre, teacher
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 (teacher), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pyre | det |
| 8 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cremated | punct |
| 10 | cremated | cremate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cremated | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 honored | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 honored | cc |
| 15 | honored | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 honored | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flowers | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 forest | punct |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 honored | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | teacher | firewood | then | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | past | teacher not said here | a pyre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pyre=Product | ||||
| 3 | cremate | past | teacher not said here | teacher's teacher | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient | ||||
| 4 | honor | past | teacher not said here | teacher | with forest flowers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/145/