The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 131
44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly Jā.
What happens: fly · To what, where: Jā, 44
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. 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 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 246 | punct |
| 3 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 246 | nsubj |
| 4 | 246 | 246 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 44 | conj |
| 5 | B. | b. | ADP | _ | 6 Girl | case |
| 6 | Girl | Girl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 246 | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fly | cc |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Girl | conj |
| 9 | Jā | Jā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 44 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | infinitive | Jā | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jā=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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