The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 141
Trees.--Left: Magnolia.
What happens: leave · To what, where: Trees
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 | Trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trees | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Left | punct |
| 4 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Magnolia | punct |
| 6 | Magnolia | Magnolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Left | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle · passive | Trees | Magnolia obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme magnolia=Attribute |
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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