The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 30
Where the road is infested with robbers, it is called a robber-wilderness.
What happens: infest, call · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 infested | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 infested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 infested | aux:pass |
| 5 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 robbers | case |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 infested | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 infested | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wilderness | det |
| 13 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wilderness | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 robber | punct |
| 15 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 infested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | infest | present · passive | the road | with robbers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with robber=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | road | a robber wilderness xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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