The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 126
The tree in the background is the Fan-palm, represented in Cunningham, Plate xxx.
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, represent · To what, where: Fan palm
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: who acts (tree), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palm | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 background | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 background | det |
| 5 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tree | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 palm | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palm | det |
| 8 | Fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palm | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fan | punct |
| 10 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 represented | punct |
| 12 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 palm | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Cunningham | case |
| 14 | Cunningham | Cunningham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 represented | obl:agent |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 xxx | punct |
| 16 | Plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 xxx | compound |
| 17 | xxx | xxx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Cunningham | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 palm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tree in the background | the Fan palm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | participle | the Fan palm not said here | Cunningham obl:agent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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