The grateful elephant, Transcriber’s Notes:, sentence 4
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.
What happens: retain · To what, where: Archaic spelling
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Transcriber’s Notes:. 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 | Archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spelling | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 variant | cc |
| 3 | variant | variant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Archaic | conj |
| 4 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retained | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 retained | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 retained | aux:pass |
| 7 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | present · perfect · passive | Archaic spelling | 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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