The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 31
Where the road is infested with lions and other beasts of prey, it is called a beast-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 lions | case |
| 7 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 infested | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beasts | cc |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lions | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 prey | case |
| 12 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beasts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 infested | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wilderness | det |
| 18 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wilderness | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 beast | punct |
| 20 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | 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 lions and other beasts of prey | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | road | a beast 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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