The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 37
The _u_ in _Buddha_, for example, is short.
What happens: be · To what, where: _ Buddha, u
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 u | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 u | punct |
| 3 | u | u | X | _ | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 short | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Buddha | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 short | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Buddha | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 example | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 example | case |
| 11 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Buddha | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 short | cop |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 u | goeswith |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 u | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ Buddha for example | short property | tree rules |
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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