The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 84
The anger-eating ogre S. i. 237 72 _Refrain from anger_
What happens: eat · To what, where: eating ogre
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ogre | det |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 anger | punct |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ogre | amod |
| 5 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ogre | appos |
| 7 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 S. | flat:foreign |
| 8 | 237 | 237 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 i. | appos |
| 9 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 237 | list |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Refrain | punct |
| 11 | Refrain | refrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ogre | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 anger | case |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Refrain | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 ogre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | anger compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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