The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 147
_A blessing upon all living beings!
What happens: live · To what, where: beings, blessing
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. 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 blessing | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blessing | det |
| 3 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 blessing | nmod |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 all | acl |
| 7 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 living | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | beings | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme being=Location |
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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