The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 77
Thereupon Servant Blackie, with broken head streaming with blood, complained to the neighbors: “See, my lady, the work of the gentle woman!
Who acts: you, broken head, neighbors, gentle woman · What happens: servant, stream, complain, see, work · To what, where: Blackie, blood, neighbors, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, broken head, neighbors, gentle woman), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 2 Servant | advmod |
| 2 | Servant | servant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Blackie | Blackie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Servant | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Servant | obl |
| 8 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 head | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 blood | case |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 streaming | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 complained | punct |
| 12 | complained | complain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 blood | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 neighbors | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbors | det |
| 15 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 complained | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 See | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 See | punct |
| 18 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Servant | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lady | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lady | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 See | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 work | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 work | det |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lady | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 27 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servant | imperative | you not said here | Blackie | with broken head; thereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stream | gerund | broken head not said here | with blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | participle | blood not said here | the neighbors | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbor=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the neighbors = neighbor not said here | my lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | work in a quote | the gentle woman | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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