The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 38
Simple consonants are pronounced as in English, except that _c_ is pronounced like _ch_ in _church_, _g_ as in _get_, and _j_ as in _judge_.
Who acts: _ · What happens: pronounce, get · To what, where: Simple consonants, c _, church
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 (_), 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 | Simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 consonants | amod |
| 2 | consonants | consonant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pronounced | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 4 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounced | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pronounced | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounced | punct |
| 12 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 15 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ch | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 18 | ch | ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounced | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounced | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 g | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 g | punct |
| 26 | g | G | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 g | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 _ | case |
| 30 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 get | nsubj |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | conj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 get | discourse |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 j | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 j | cc |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 j | punct |
| 36 | j | J | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 j | punct |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 judge | case |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 judge | case |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 in | punct |
| 41 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | obl |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | present · passive | Simple consonants | as English; as judge; g parataxis; j parataxis | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pronounce | present · passive | c _ | church | except that; like ch | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in church=Manner | |||
| 3 | get | present | _ | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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