The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
When I entered this forest infested by you, I took no account of bows and such-like weapons; when I entered this forest, I took account only of myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: enter, infest, take, account · To what, where: forest, account, bows
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 (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forest | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 infested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 account | det |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bows | case |
| 15 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 account | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weapons | cc |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 like | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 such | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weapons | amod |
| 20 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bows | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 entered | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 entered | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 entered | nsubj |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 30 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 myself | advmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 myself | case |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 took | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | I | this forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | infest | participle | this forest not said here | by you | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | I | no account of bows and like weapons | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | I | this forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 5 | take | past | I | account | of myself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent account=Theme of myself=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | account | bows and like weapons | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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