The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 58
Ahead of you water is abundant.
What happens: be
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 | Ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 6 abundant | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 water | nsubj |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abundant | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 abundant | cop |
| 6 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 abundant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of water you; abundant, ahead property | 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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