The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 167
The anger-eating ogre 72 “_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat_”
Who acts: eating ogre · What happens: eat, favor, sit · To what, where: seat
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: who acts (eating ogre), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ogre | det |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 anger | punct |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ogre | amod |
| 5 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sits | nsubj |
| 6 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ogre | flat |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Here | punct |
| 9 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 Sire | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 11 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 72 | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ogre | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ogre | det |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ogre | amod |
| 15 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sire | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 favored | punct |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 favored | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ill | punct |
| 19 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Sire | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwarfish | punct |
| 21 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 favored | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ogre | punct |
| 23 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 seat | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 seat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sits | obl |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 sits | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | anger compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | favor in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | the eating ogre | your seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
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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