The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 57
_Griffin and snakes.
To what, where: Griffin
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. 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 | _ | 2 Griffin | punct |
| 2 | Griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 snakes | cc |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Griffin | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Griffin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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