The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 152
Proceeding farther, he saw first a heap of riches wrapped up in a bundle, and then one of the two thieves dead with a porridge-bowl overturned beside him.
Who acts: companion, porridge bowl · What happens: proceed, see, wrap up, overturn · To what, where: heap, riches, bundle
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 (companion, porridge bowl), 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 | Proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Proceeding | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proceeding | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 saw | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heap | det |
| 8 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 riches | case |
| 10 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heap | nmod |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 riches | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bundle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bundle | det |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dead | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dead | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 one | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 dead | nummod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thieves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thieves | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thieves | nummod |
| 23 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 30 overturned | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bowl | det |
| 27 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bowl | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 porridge | punct |
| 29 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 overturned | nsubj |
| 30 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | advcl |
| 31 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 overturned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | gerund | companion not said here | far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | companion | a heap of riches | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wrap up | participle | riches not said here | a bundle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bundle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | overturn | past | a porridge bowl | beside companion | tree rules |
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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