The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 29
This _book contains twenty-six stories selected from the author’s larger work_ Buddhist Parables, _Yale University Press, 1922.
Who acts: book, author · What happens: contain, select, work · To what, where: six stories, larger work
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 (book, author), 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 | 3 book | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 book | punct |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 six | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 twenty | punct |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 stories | nummod |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | obj |
| 9 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stories | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 author | det |
| 12 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 author | case |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 work | amod |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 selected | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Parables | punct |
| 17 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Parables | amod |
| 18 | Parables | parable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 _ | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Press | amod |
| 21 | Yale | Yale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 University | compound |
| 22 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Press | compound |
| 23 | Press | Press | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Parables | orphan |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 1922 | punct |
| 25 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Press | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | this book | six stories | Buddhist Parables _ University Press conj | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme | |||
| 2 | select | participle | six stories not said here | the author's larger work | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from work=Source | ||||
| 3 | work | the author | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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