The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 253
It is highly probable that the tradition embodied in the texts regarding these eleven stories is correct.
Who acts: two, tradition · What happens: be, embody, regard · To what, where: tradition, texts, eleven stories
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 (two, tradition), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 probable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 probable | cop |
| 3 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 4 probable | advmod |
| 4 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 correct | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tradition | det |
| 7 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 correct | nsubj |
| 8 | embodied | embody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tradition | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 texts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 texts | det |
| 11 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 embodied | obl |
| 12 | regarding | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tradition | acl |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 stories | det |
| 14 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stories | nummod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 regarding | obj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 correct | cop |
| 17 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 probable | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 probable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | two | highly, probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embody | participle | the tradition not said here | the texts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | the tradition not said here | this eleven stories | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the tradition | correct property | 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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