The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 107
“How far off can the sound of a cloud be heard?”
What happens: hear · To what, where: sound
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 | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 off | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cloud | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cloud | det |
| 10 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | nmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | can · passive | the sound of a cloud | off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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