The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 165
And what, monks, is lawful ground, the region of the fathers?
What happens: be · To what, where: lawful ground
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. 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 | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 what | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ground | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ground | cop |
| 7 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ground | amod |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 region | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 region | det |
| 11 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monks | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fathers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fathers | det |
| 14 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 region | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lawful ground | 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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