The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
The received text of this work represents a recension made in Ceylon early in the fifth century A.D., but much of the material is demonstrably many centuries older.
Who acts: received text, much · What happens: receive, represent, make, be · To what, where: recension
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 (received text, much), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 text | det |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 text | amod |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 represents | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 text | nmod |
| 7 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 recension | det |
| 9 | recension | recension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 represents | obj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 recension | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ceylon | case |
| 12 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl:agent |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 made | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 16 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 18 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 century | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 represents | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 much | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 much | cc |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 older | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 material | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 material | det |
| 25 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 older | cop |
| 27 | demonstrably | demonstrably | ADV | _ | 30 older | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 centuries | amod |
| 29 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 older | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 represents | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | represent | present | the received text of this work | a recension | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot recension=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a recension not said here | century | Ceylon obl:agent; early property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 4 | is | present | much of the material | century | demonstrably, old property | 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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