The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 47
It is quite clear that in the case of these stories also we are dealing with simple folk-tales which have undergone only slight modification.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, deal, undergo · To what, where: case, simple folk tales
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clear | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 clear | advmod |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dealing | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 case | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dealing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stories | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 stories | det |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 case | nmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 dealing | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 dealing | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dealing | aux |
| 15 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 clear | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tales | case |
| 17 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tales | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dealing | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 undergone | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 undergone | aux |
| 23 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tales | acl:relcl |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 modification | advmod |
| 25 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 modification | amod |
| 26 | modification | modification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 undergone | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deal | present · progressive | we | the case of this stories | with simple folk tales | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tale=Theme | |||
| 3 | undergo | present · perfect · passive | simple folk tales | slight modification obj | tree rules |
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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