The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 137
The illustration to Story 14, _King and boar_, represents the boar flying through the air by the magical power of the gem which he has just bitten.
Who acts: illustration, boar · What happens: story, represent, fly, bite · To what, where: 14, boar, air, gem
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 (illustration, boar), 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 | 13 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | story | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 illustration | acl |
| 5 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 boar | cc |
| 10 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 13 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boar | det |
| 15 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represents | obj |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 boar | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 22 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 power | amod |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gem | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gem | det |
| 26 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bitten | aux |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 bitten | advmod |
| 31 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gem | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | story | infinitive | the illustration not said here | 14 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | the illustration | the boar | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the boar not said here | the air | by the magical power of the gem | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||
| 4 | bite | present · perfect · passive | the gem | king nsubj:pass | vn swat-18.2 «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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