The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 168
Meditation on the Body, on the Sensations, on the Thoughts, on the Conditions of Existence.
What happens: condition · To what, where: Sensations, Existence
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 | Meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sensations | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Body | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Body | det |
| 4 | Body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meditation | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sensations | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Sensations | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sensations | det |
| 8 | Sensations | Sensation | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thoughts | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Thoughts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Thoughts | det |
| 12 | Thoughts | Thought | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Sensations | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Conditions | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Conditions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Conditions | det |
| 16 | Conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Sensations | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Existence | case |
| 18 | Existence | Existence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Conditions | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sensations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | condition | Existence | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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