The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
“In yonder open space, sirs, grew a huge banyan tree.
What happens: grow · To what, where: huge banyan tree, open space
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 space | case |
| 3 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 space | amod |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sirs | punct |
| 7 | sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 space | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 space | punct |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 12 | banyan | banyan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | past | a huge banyan tree | open space and sirs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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