The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 246
This development took place long before the beginning of the Christian era.
Who acts: development · What happens: take, begin · To what, where: place, beginning, Christian era
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 (development), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 development | det |
| 2 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 beginning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beginning | det |
| 8 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 era | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 era | det |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 era | amod |
| 12 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this development | place | before the beginning of the Christian era | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before beginning=Destination | ||
| 2 | begin | the Christian era | 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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