The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 203
Indeed, so far back into the past does this series of lives extend that it is impossible even to imagine a beginning of the series.
Who acts: series · What happens: do, extend, be, imagine, begin · To what, where: beginning, series
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 (series), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 does | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 back | advmod |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 does | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 past | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 past | det |
| 8 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 series | det |
| 11 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extend | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lives | case |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 series | nmod |
| 14 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 does | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 impossible | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 impossible | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 impossible | cop |
| 18 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 extend | ccomp |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 imagine | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 imagine | mark |
| 21 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impossible | csubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 beginning | det |
| 23 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imagine | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 series | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 series | det |
| 26 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beginning | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | extend | present | this series of lives | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this series of lives not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | imagine | to-infinitive | a beginning of the series | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beginning=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begin | the series | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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