The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 32
Of each of these stories we have two versions, an earlier version from a canonical source, and a later version from an uncanonical source.
Who acts: we · What happens: have · To what, where: two versions
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 (we), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 each | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 have | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 stories | det |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 each | nmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 versions | nummod |
| 9 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 version | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 version | det |
| 12 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 version | amod |
| 13 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 versions | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 source | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 source | det |
| 16 | canonical | canonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 source | amod |
| 17 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 version | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 version | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 version | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 version | det |
| 21 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 version | amod |
| 22 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 source | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 source | det |
| 25 | uncanonical | uncanonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 source | amod |
| 26 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 version | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | two versions | of each of this stories; a later version from a uncanonical source conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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