The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 101
Better an enemy who is intelligent Than a well-disposed person who is a fool!
Who acts: Better enemy, disposed person · What happens: be, dispose · To what, where: fool, Better enemy
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Better enemy, disposed person), 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 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 enemy | amod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 enemy | det |
| 3 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 intelligent | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 intelligent | cop |
| 6 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Than | than | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 disposed | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 11 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 person | amod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 intelligent | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fool | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fool | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fool | det |
| 16 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 person | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a Better enemy | than a disposed person; intelligent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dispose | participle | well property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a disposed person | a fool | 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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