The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 81
Merely through this contact with the sour, unpalatable nimbs, the sweet fruit of the mango turned bitter, and its flavor became like the flavor of the leaves of the nimbs.
Who acts: contact, flavor · What happens: turn, become, flavor · To what, where: leaves
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 (contact, flavor), 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 | Merely | merely | ADV | _ | 4 contact | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 contact | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 contact | det |
| 4 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 nimbs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nimbs | det |
| 7 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nimbs | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sour | punct |
| 9 | unpalatable | unpalatable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nimbs | amod |
| 10 | nimbs | nimb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contact | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fruit | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fruit | det |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fruit | amod |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mango | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mango | det |
| 17 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fruit | nmod |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turned | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 became | cc |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 flavor | nmod:poss |
| 23 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 flavor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flavor | det |
| 27 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 leaves | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 leaves | det |
| 30 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 flavor | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nimbs | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 nimbs | det |
| 33 | nimbs | nimb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 leaves | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | this contact with the sour unpalatable nimbs | the sweet fruit of the mango nsubj; bitter property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | contact's flavor | like the flavor of the leaves of the nimbs | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flavor | contact | nom flavor «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | flavor | the leaves of the nimbs | nom flavor «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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