The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 204
What is more to the point, in each of these lives every person has endured much suffering and misery.
What happens: be, endure · To what, where: each, person
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 point | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 each | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 more | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lives | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 lives | det |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 each | nmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endured | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 endured | aux |
| 16 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 more | advcl |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 suffering | amod |
| 18 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endured | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 misery | cc |
| 20 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suffering | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | each of this lives | to the point; What nsubj; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | endure | present · perfect · passive | every person | much suffering and misery obj | 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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