The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 87
But in spite of this, its fruit has turned bitter.
What happens: turn, spite · To what, where: fruit, this
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spite | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spite | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spite | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect · passive | Buddha's fruit | in spite of this; bitter property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in spite=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spite | this | nom spite «feeling 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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