The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 42
Words of three or more syllables are accented on the second syllable from the last, provided the next to the last syllable is short, as _Gótama_, _Mállika_.
Who acts: next · What happens: accent, provide, be, word · To what, where: Words, second syllable, three syllables
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 (next), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 accented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 syllables | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 syllables | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 three | conj |
| 6 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Words | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 accented | aux:pass |
| 8 | accented | accent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 syllable | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 syllable | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 syllable | amod |
| 12 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accented | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 last | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 syllable | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 provided | punct |
| 17 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accented | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 next | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 short | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 syllable | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 syllable | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 syllable | amod |
| 23 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 next | obl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 short | cop |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 provided | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Gótama | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Gótama | case |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 as | punct |
| 29 | Gótama | Gótama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 accented | parataxis |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Gótama | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mállika | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mállika | punct |
| 33 | Mállika | Mállika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 accented | parataxis |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mállika | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 accented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accent | present · passive | Words of three syllables | the second syllable from the last | Gótama parataxis; Mállika parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | provide | past | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the next to the last syllable | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | three syllables | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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