The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 76
And in anger and displeasure Mistress Vedehikā seized the pin of the door-bolt and gave her a blow on the head, breaking her head.
What happens: seize, give, break · To what, where: pin, anger, blow, Vedehikā, head
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: 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 | _ | 8 seized | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Mistress | cc |
| 5 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mistress | compound |
| 6 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anger | conj |
| 7 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mistress | appos |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pin | det |
| 10 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bolt | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bolt | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bolt | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 door | punct |
| 15 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pin | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blow | det |
| 20 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blow | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 breaking | punct |
| 25 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gave | advcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breaking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the pin of the door bolt | anger and displeasure Mistress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a blow | Vedehikā | the head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset | |||
| 3 | break | gerund | Vedehikā's head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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