The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 163
Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 _At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap_
What happens: chew · To what, where: tortoise, Antelope
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 | Antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woodpecker | punct |
| 3 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Antelope | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortoise | punct |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Antelope | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunter | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hunter | cc |
| 8 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Antelope | conj |
| 9 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hunter | flat |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 chewed | punct |
| 11 | At | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chewed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tortoise | det |
| 15 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chewed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 chewed | aux |
| 17 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Antelope | parataxis |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 chewed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 strips | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strips | det |
| 21 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 all | nmod |
| 22 | except | except | ADP | _ | 25 strap | case |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 strap | nummod |
| 25 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chewed | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 chewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past · perfect · passive | the tortoise | moment | except one strap | 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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