The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 104
“Four or five leagues, noble sir.”
To what, where: Four leagues
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. 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 | _ | 5 leagues | punct |
| 2 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 leagues | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 five | cc |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Four | conj |
| 5 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sir | amod |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leagues | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leagues | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 leagues | 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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