The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
17 1 _Where there’s a will, there’s a way_
To what, where: 17 1
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 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1 | nummod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’s | punct |
| 4 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 ’s | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 ’s | expl |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 1 | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 will | det |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ’s | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 ’s | expl |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ’s | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’s | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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