The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 76
A range of mountains, the loftiest in the world, forming the northeastern border of India.
What happens: form · To what, where: northeastern border
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 range | det |
| 2 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loftiest | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mountains | case |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 range | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 loftiest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loftiest | det |
| 7 | loftiest | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loftiest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forming | punct |
| 12 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 loftiest | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 border | det |
| 14 | northeastern | northeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 border | amod |
| 15 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forming | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 border | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loftiest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | gerund | the northeastern border of India | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location border=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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