The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 88
What, pray, is the reason?”
What happens: pray, be · To what, where: reason
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reason | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the reason | What nsubj | tree rules |
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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