The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 156
In the illustration to Story 7, the tree is represented in flower.
What happens: represent · To what, where: tree
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 illustration | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 illustration | det |
| 3 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represented | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Story | case |
| 5 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 illustration | nmod |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Story | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 illustration | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 represented | aux:pass |
| 11 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 flower | case |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represented | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the tree | in flower; in the illustration to Story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in illustration=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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