The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 37
_ One of the marks of a demon.
What happens: mark · To what, where: One, demon
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 | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 marks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 marks | det |
| 5 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 One | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 demon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 demon | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marks | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | mark | a demon | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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