The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and approached the Future Buddha.
Who acts: ogre, men · What happens: shake off, let, fall, approach · To what, where: one, men, feet, Future Buddha
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 (ogre, men), 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 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 shook | compound:prt |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arrows | case |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 arrows | det |
| 9 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 letting | punct |
| 11 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shook | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 letting | obj |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 letting | xcomp |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 fall | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fall | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 approached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 approached | cc |
| 20 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Buddha | det |
| 22 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Buddha | compound |
| 23 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 approached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | past | the ogre | every one of that arrows | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | the ogre not said here | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | men = man not said here | ogre's feet | right property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 4 | approach | past | the Future Buddha | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=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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