The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

Beyond that point the entire forest is one mass of water; it rains all the time; the hollows are full of water; in this place and in that are lakes completely covered with lotus-flowers both red and white.”

Who acts: entire forest, it, hollows, that · What happens: be, rain, cover · To what, where: one mass, 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: who acts (entire forest, it, hollows, that), 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	Beyond	beyond	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mass	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
5	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	amod
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mass	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mass	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 mass	nummod
9	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mass	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 rains	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rains	nsubj
14	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mass	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rains	obl:unmarked
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hollows	det
20	hollows	hollow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 full	cop
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rains	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mass	appos
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lakes	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 lakes	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 lakes	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lakes	cop
33	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 place	conj
34	completely	completely	ADV	_	35 covered	advmod
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lakes	acl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 flowers	case
37	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flowers	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 lotus	punct
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 covered	obl
40	both	both	CCONJ	_	41 red	cc:preconj
41	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flowers	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 white	cc
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 red	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the entire forest	one mass			beyond that point; of water; this place and lakes appos	tree rules
2	rain	present	it			time		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	is	present	the hollows				of water; full property	tree rules
4	is	present	that		lakes			tree rules
5	cover	participle		lakes not said here			with lotus flowers; completely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 49