The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 132
Adapted from C. H. Tawney, Ocean of the Streams of Story (Kathāsaritsāgara), Chapter 72.
What happens: adapt, chapter · To what, where: 72
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 | Adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 H. | case |
| 3 | C. | C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 H. | compound |
| 4 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Adapted | obl:agent |
| 5 | Tawney | Tawney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 H. | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ocean | punct |
| 7 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 H. | flat |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Streams | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Streams | det |
| 10 | Streams | Stream | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Ocean | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Story | case |
| 12 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Streams | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kathāsaritsāgara | punct |
| 14 | Kathāsaritsāgara | Kathāsaritsāgara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Story | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kathāsaritsāgara | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Chapter | punct |
| 17 | Chapter | chapter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Adapted | advcl |
| 18 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Chapter | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Adapted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adapt | participle | C. H. obl:agent | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chapter | infinitive | 72 | 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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