The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
With Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 89 and 410; also the well-known story in Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.
Who acts: Buddhist baby _, _ · What happens: compare, know, sing, say · To what, where: E. · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Buddhist baby _, _), 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 | 13 compare | obl |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 _ | det |
| 7 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 _ | amod |
| 8 | Tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 baby | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tar | punct |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | compound |
| 11 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
| 13 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | obj |
| 15 | Chavannes | Chavannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 E. | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cents | punct |
| 17 | Cinq | Cinq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cents | compound |
| 18 | Cents | Cents | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 E. | conj |
| 19 | Contes | Contes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cents | flat |
| 20 | 89 | 89 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 E. | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 410 | cc |
| 22 | 410 | 410 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 89 | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 story | punct |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 story | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 story | det |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 known | advmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 well | punct |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 story | amod |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Chandler | case |
| 31 | Joel | Joel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Chandler | compound |
| 32 | Chandler | Chandler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 story | nmod |
| 33 | Harris | Harris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Chandler | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Remus | punct |
| 35 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Remus | compound |
| 36 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Chandler | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Songs | punct |
| 38 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Songs | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 story | appos |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Sayings | cc |
| 41 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 Sayings | nmod:poss |
| 42 | Sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Songs | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | a Buddhist baby _ | E. 89 and Cinq Cents | with Story; the known story in Joel Chandler and Uncle Remus parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e.=Patient with story=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sing | _ | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | say | _ | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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