The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 249
Most of these stories were, in their original form, nothing but simple folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity.
Who acts: Most · What happens: be · To what, where: original form
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 (Most), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 form | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 form | nmod:poss |
| 9 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 form | appos |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tales | cc |
| 14 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 folk | punct |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nothing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 many | punct |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 many | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 antiquity | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 antiquity | amod |
| 24 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 many | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Most of this stories | Stories's original form | Stories = story nmod:poss; nothing simple folk tales appos | 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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