The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
With Story 1, _The grateful elephant_, compare the story of Androclus and the lion, Aesop’s fable of the Lion and the Shepherd, and Gesta Romanorum 104.
Who acts: grateful elephant · What happens: compare · To what, where: story
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 (grateful elephant), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Story | case |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 compare | obl |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 elephant | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elephant | det |
| 7 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 elephant | amod |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compare | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 elephant | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 elephant | punct |
| 11 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compare | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Androclus | case |
| 15 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lion | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fable | punct |
| 20 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fable | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Aesop | case |
| 22 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lion | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Lion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lion | det |
| 25 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fable | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Shepherd | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Shepherd | det |
| 28 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lion | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Gesta | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Gesta | cc |
| 31 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 compare | parataxis |
| 32 | Romanorum | Romanorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Gesta | flat |
| 33 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Gesta | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | the grateful elephant | the story of Androclus and the lion and Aesop's fable of the Lion and the Shepherd | with Story; Gesta parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient with story=Co-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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