The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
The approximate date of these old canonical texts is now well established.
What happens: establish · To what, where: approximate date
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 date | det |
| 2 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 date | amod |
| 3 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 established | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 texts | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 texts | nsubj |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 texts | amod |
| 7 | canonical | canonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 texts | amod |
| 8 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 date | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 established | aux:pass |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 established | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 established | advmod |
| 12 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | present · passive | the approximate date of old canonical texts these | now | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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