The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 79
55: i. 272 58 _Keep the Precepts_
What happens: keep · To what, where: Precepts, 55
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 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 i. | punct |
| 3 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 55 | conj |
| 4 | 272 | 272 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 55 | conj |
| 5 | 58 | 58 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 55 | conj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Keep | punct |
| 7 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 55 | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Precepts | det |
| 9 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Keep | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | infinitive | the Precepts | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |
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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