The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 32
In Story 1, two whole paragraphs which interrupt the progress of the story have been omitted.
Who acts: two whole paragraphs, story · What happens: interrupt, omit, progress · To what, where: progress, two whole paragraphs, Story
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 whole paragraphs, story), 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 | _ | 2 Story | case |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 omitted | obl |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 paragraphs | nummod |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paragraphs | amod |
| 7 | paragraphs | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 omitted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 interrupt | nsubj |
| 9 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 paragraphs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 progress | det |
| 11 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interrupt | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 progress | nmod |
| 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 | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 omitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | present | two whole paragraphs | the progress of the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | omit | present · perfect · passive | two whole paragraphs | Story | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | progress | the story | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=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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