The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 96
A Rose-apple (Jambu) tree is represented in the illustration to Story 15, lower right.
What happens: represent, story · To what, where: apple tree, 15
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 | 4 apple | det |
| 2 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rose | punct |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jambu | punct |
| 6 | Jambu | Jambu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jambu | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 represented | aux:pass |
| 10 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 illustration | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 illustration | det |
| 13 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represented | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Story | case |
| 15 | Story | story | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 represented | conj |
| 16 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Story | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lower | punct |
| 18 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 15 | conj |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lower | amod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | apple tree | in the illustration | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in illustration=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | story | infinitive | 15 | tree rules |
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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