The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 109
Over elephant’s head: Fan-palm, _Borassus Flabelliformis_.
To what, where: head
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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 palm | punct |
| 6 | Fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palm | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fan | punct |
| 8 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Borassus | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Borassus | punct |
| 11 | Borassus | Borassus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 palm | appos |
| 12 | Flabelliformis | Flabelliformis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Borassus | flat |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Borassus | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | 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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