The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 58
_ Robes, food, lodging, and medicine.
What happens: lodge · To what, where: Robes
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 Robes | punct |
| 2 | Robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 food | punct |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Robes | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lodging | punct |
| 6 | lodging | lodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Robes | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 medicine | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 medicine | cc |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Robes | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Robes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge | gerund | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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