The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 46
Are the lakes completely covered with water-lilies both blue and white, and lotus-flowers both red and white?”
What happens: be, cover · To what, where: lakes
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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lakes | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lakes | det |
| 3 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lilies | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lilies | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blue | obl |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 blue | cc:preconj |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 covered | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 white | cc |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blue | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 red | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 red | cc |
| 16 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowers | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lotus | punct |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 red | nsubj |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 red | cc:preconj |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 covered | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 white | cc |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 red | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lakes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | participle · passive | the lakes | completely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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