The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
And Mistress Vedehikā had a servant named Blackie who was capable and industrious and performed her duties well.
Who acts: Mistress, servant · What happens: have, name, be, perform · To what, where: servant, duties
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, servant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mistress | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 servant | acl |
| 8 | Blackie | Blackie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 capable | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 capable | cop |
| 11 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 servant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 industrious | cc |
| 13 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 capable | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 performed | cc |
| 15 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 duties | nmod:poss |
| 17 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 performed | obj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 performed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mistress | a servant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a servant not said here | Blackie xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a servant | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a servant not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | perform | past | Mistress not said here | mistress's duties | well property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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