The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 95
Now how far does a rain-wind blow?”
What happens: do · To what, where: wind blow
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 does | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 does | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blow | det |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wind | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rain | punct |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | compound |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a wind blow | now | far property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality |
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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