The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 105
Centre over elephant: Probably the Sāl-tree, _Shorea Robusta_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Vessabhu.
To what, where: Sāl tree
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 | Centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 elephant | case |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Centre | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
| 5 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 9 tree | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | Sāl | Sāl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sāl | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shorea | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shorea | punct |
| 12 | Shorea | shorea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | conj |
| 13 | Robusta | Robusta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Shorea | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Robusta | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tree | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 17 | Bo | Bo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bo | punct |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Vessabhu | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Vessabhu | det |
| 22 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Vessabhu | compound |
| 23 | Vessabhu | Vessabhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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