The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 117
The illustration to Story 7, _Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter_, is taken from Cunningham, Plate xxvii.
What happens: take · To what, where: illustration, Cunningham
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 | 2 illustration | det |
| 2 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | nmod |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 woodpecker | punct |
| 8 | Antelope | antelope | INTJ | _ | 10 woodpecker | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woodpecker | punct |
| 10 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tortoise | punct |
| 12 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodpecker | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunter | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hunter | cc |
| 15 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodpecker | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunter | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Cunningham | case |
| 21 | Cunningham | Cunningham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 xxvii | punct |
| 23 | Plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 xxvii | compound |
| 24 | xxvii | xxvii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Cunningham | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the illustration to Story and woodpecker and tortoise | Cunningham | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from cunningham=Initial_Location |
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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