The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 61
Great was the honor rendered to the mango.
Who acts: Great honor · What happens: be, render · To what, where: Great honor, mango
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: who acts (Great honor), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honor | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 honor | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 honor | det |
| 4 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rendered | nsubj |
| 5 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mango | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mango | det |
| 8 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rendered | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great honor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | render | past | the Great honor | the mango | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mango=Recipient |
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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