The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 78
A Buddhist Tar-baby Jā.
To what, where: Buddhist Tar baby
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baby | amod |
| 3 | Tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tar | punct |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Jā | Jā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | appos |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 baby | 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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