The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 100
_Much ado about nothing.
To what, where: Much ado
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 ado | punct |
| 2 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ado | amod |
| 3 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 ado | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ado | 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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