The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 27
_ A sacred city of North India, situated on the Ganges.
What happens: situate · To what, where: sacred city, Ganges
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. 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 | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 India | case |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 India | compound |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 situated | punct |
| 9 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 city | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Ganges | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ganges | det |
| 12 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 situated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | a sacred city of North India not said here | the Ganges | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ganges=Destination |
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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