The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 42
Here the inconsistency is allowed to stand, and the story is used to illustrate the folly of walking in forbidden ground.
Who acts: inconsistency · What happens: allow, stand, use, illustrate · To what, where: inconsistency, story, folly
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 (inconsistency), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inconsistency | det |
| 3 | inconsistency | inconsistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stand | mark |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 allowed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 illustrate | mark |
| 15 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 folly | det |
| 17 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 illustrate | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 walking | case |
| 19 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 folly | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | forbidden | forbidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walking | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | the inconsistency | here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | the inconsistency not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | the story | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | illustrate | to-infinitive | the folly of walking in forbidden ground | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Destination |
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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