The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 42
_Better an 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 | _ | 2 Better | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 enemy | det |
| 4 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Better | nsubj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Better | 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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