The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 99
“How far off is a cloud-head visible?”
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 visible | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 off | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 visible | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 visible | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 7 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cloud | punct |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 visible | compound |
| 10 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 visible | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | off, visible 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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