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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 34

Soon afterwards he came across an ancient Elephant wandering by itself on the outskirts of the forest, and feeding with its trunk on the grasses and foliage which it loves.

Who acts: Bullock, ancient Elephant, foliage · What happens: come, wonder, feed, love · To what, where: grasses

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bullock, ancient Elephant, foliage), 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

advmodadvmodnsubjcasedetamodoblaclcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccadvclcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblccconjobjnsubjacl:relclpunctrootSoonADVafterwardsADVhePRONcameVERBacrossADPanDETancientADJElephantNOUNwanderingVERBbyADPitselfPRONonADPtheDEToutskirtsNOUNofADPtheDETforestNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJfeedingVERBwithADPitsPRONtrunkNOUNonADPtheDETgrassesNOUNandCCONJfoliageNOUNwhichPRONitPRONlovesVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SoonsoonADVDegree=Pos2 afterwardsadvmod
2afterwardsafterwardsADV_4 cameadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5acrossacrossADP_8 Elephantcase
6anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 Elephantdet
7ancientancientADJDegree=Pos8 Elephantamod
8ElephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing4 cameobl
9wanderingwonderVERBVerbForm=Ger8 Elephantacl
10bybyADP_11 itselfcase
11itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes9 wanderingobl
12ononADP_14 outskirtscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 outskirtsdet
14outskirtsoutskirtNOUNNumber=Plur9 wanderingobl
15ofofADP_17 forestcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 forestdet
17forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing14 outskirtsnmod
18,,PUNCT_20 feedingpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 feedingcc
20feedingfeedVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 cameadvcl
21withwithADP_23 trunkcase
22itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 trunknmod:poss
23trunktrunkNOUNNumber=Sing20 feedingobl
24ononADP_26 grassescase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 grassesdet
26grassesgrassNOUNNumber=Plur20 feedingobl
27andandCCONJ_28 foliagecc
28foliagefoliageNOUNNumber=Sing26 grassesconj
29whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 lovesobj
30ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 lovesnsubj
31lovesloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 grassesacl:relcl
32..PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastBullockacross a ancient Elephant; afterwards propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across elephant=Initial_Location
2wonder speech: askgerunda ancient Elephant not said hereby Elephant; on the outskirts of the forestvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on outskirt=Topic
3feedgerundBullock not said herewith forest's trunk; on the grasses and foliagevn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient
4lovepresentfoliagethe grasses and foliagevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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