The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 140
The artist has introduced representatives of the various animals mentioned in the story, and a few monkeys for good measure.
Who acts: artist · What happens: have, introduce, mention · To what, where: introduced representatives, various animals, story
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 (artist), 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 artist | det |
| 2 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 representatives | amod |
| 5 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 8 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 representatives | nmod |
| 10 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 animals | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mentioned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 measure | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 measure | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monkeys | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monkeys | amod |
| 18 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 measure | nsubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 measure | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 measure | amod |
| 21 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the artist | introduced representatives of the various animals | good measure a few monkeys parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representative=Patient | |||
| 2 | introduce | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | the various animals not said here | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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