The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
Having thus made known his determination, with a yell he struck the ogre with his right hand.
Who acts: Having, prince · What happens: have, make, know, strike, determine · To what, where: determination, ogre
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 (Having, prince), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 made | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 determination | nmod:poss |
| 6 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 yell | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 yell | det |
| 10 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ogre | det |
| 14 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | Having | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | Having not said here | prince's determination | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer determination=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | prince | the ogre | with a yell; with prince's right hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ogre=Patient with yell=Instrument | |||
| 5 | determine | prince | nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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