The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 145
Two caravan-leaders 138 _Be prudent!
What happens: be · To what, where: Two caravan leaders
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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 leaders | nummod |
| 2 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaders | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 caravan | punct |
| 4 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 leaders | nmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 prudent | punct |
| 7 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prudent | cop |
| 8 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 138 | parataxis |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | prudent property | tree rules |
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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