The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 26
_Copyright 1923 by Yale University Press.
Who acts: Yale University Press · What happens: copyright · To what, where: Copyright
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 (Yale University Press), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Copyright | punct |
| 2 | Copyright | copyright | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Copyright | flat |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Press | case |
| 5 | Yale | Yale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Press | amod |
| 6 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Press | amod |
| 7 | Press | Press | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Copyright | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Copyright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | copyright | Yale University Press | nom copyright «communication transitive»: by=agent |
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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