The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 156
Making a search, he found his body also flung away in a secluded spot.
Who acts: companion, body · What happens: make, find, fling away · To what, where: search, secluded spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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, body), 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 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 search | det |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Making | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | nsubj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 flung | advmod |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 flung | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 14 | secluded | secluded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spot | amod |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | companion not said here | a search | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product | ||||
| 2 | find | past | companion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fling away | past | companion's body | a secluded spot | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in spot=Destination |
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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