The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 156
The Virūpakkhas are a royal family of snakes.
Who acts: Virūpakkhas · What happens: be · To what, where: royal family
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: who acts (Virūpakkhas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Virūpakkhas | det |
| 2 | Virūpakkhas | Virūpakkha | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 family | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 family | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 snakes | case |
| 8 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 family | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Virūpakkhas | a royal family | of snakes | 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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