The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 31
In a few cases, words and phrases have been softened, and sentences have been omitted.
What happens: soften, omit · To what, where: words, few cases, sentences
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cases | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cases | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cases | amod |
| 4 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 softened | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cases | punct |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 softened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 phrases | cc |
| 8 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 words | conj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 softened | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 softened | aux:pass |
| 11 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 omitted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 omitted | cc |
| 14 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 omitted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 omitted | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 omitted | aux:pass |
| 17 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 softened | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 softened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present · perfect · passive | words and phrases | a few cases | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | omit | present · perfect · passive | sentences | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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