The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 33
The author has not, however, “written down” any of the stories in order to remove such difficulties as the original translation may present to the child.
Who acts: author, original translation · What happens: not have, write down, remove, present · To what, where: such difficulties, child
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 (author, original translation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 has | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 any | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 any | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 any | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 written | compound:prt |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 has | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stories | det |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 any | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stories | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remove | mark |
| 19 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 order | acl |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 difficulties | amod |
| 21 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 remove | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 present | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 translation | det |
| 24 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 translation | amod |
| 25 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 present | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 present | aux |
| 27 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 remove | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 child | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 present | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | the author | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | write down in a quote | participle | the author not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remove | to-infinitive | the author not said here | such difficulties | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme | ||||
| 4 | present | may | the original translation | the child | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |
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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