The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 39
_Better an enemy with sense than a friend without it.
To what, where: 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: 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 | _ | 4 enemy | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 enemy | amod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 enemy | det |
| 4 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sense | case |
| 6 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enemy | nmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enemy | nmod |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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