The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 6
Finite are creeping things,--snakes and scorpions, centipedes, spiders and lizards, rats and mice!
Who acts: Finite · What happens: creep, be · To what, where: creeping things
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: who acts (Finite), 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 | Finite | finite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | cop |
| 3 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 snakes | punct |
| 7 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 things | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scorpions | cc |
| 9 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snakes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 centipedes | punct |
| 11 | centipedes | centipede | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snakes | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spiders | punct |
| 13 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 things | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lizards | cc |
| 15 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spiders | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rats | punct |
| 17 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 things | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mice | cc |
| 19 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rats | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Finite | creeping things and spiders and lizards and rats and mice | snakes and scorpions and centipedes appos; spiders and lizards conj; rats and mice conj | 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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