The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 97
“But has a rain-wind touched the body of even a single one of you?”
Who acts: rain wind · What happens: have, touch · To what, where: body
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 (rain wind), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wind | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 body | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | touch in a quote | past | a rain wind | the body of a single one of you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-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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