The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 163
And this, monks, may be effected in the following way:
What happens: affect, follow · To what, where: monks, following way
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 effected | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 monks | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 effected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 effected | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 effected | aux:pass |
| 8 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 effected | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 effected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | may · passive | this monks | the following way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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