The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
For example, the stanzas rank as canonical Scripture, older versions of some of the stories occur in the canonical texts, and many of the stories (including 4 and 7 and 22) are illustrated by Bharahat sculptures of the third century B.C.
Who acts: stanzas, older versions, Bharahat sculptures · What happens: rank, occur, include, illustrate · To what, where: canonical texts, 4, many
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 (stanzas, older versions, Bharahat sculptures), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rank | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stanzas | det |
| 5 | stanzas | stanza | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rank | nsubj |
| 6 | rank | rank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Scripture | case |
| 8 | canonical | canonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Scripture | amod |
| 9 | Scripture | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rank | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 occur | punct |
| 11 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 versions | amod |
| 12 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 occur | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 some | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 versions | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stories | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stories | det |
| 17 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rank | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 texts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 texts | det |
| 21 | canonical | canonical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 texts | amod |
| 22 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 occur | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 illustrated | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 illustrated | cc |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 illustrated | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stories | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stories | det |
| 28 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 many | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 including | punct |
| 30 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 many | parataxis |
| 31 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 including | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 7 | cc |
| 33 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 4 | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 22 | cc |
| 35 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 4 | conj |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 including | punct |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 illustrated | aux:pass |
| 38 | illustrated | illustrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rank | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 sculptures | case |
| 40 | Bharahat | Bharahat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sculptures | compound |
| 41 | sculptures | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 illustrated | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 century | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 century | det |
| 44 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 45 century | amod |
| 45 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sculptures | nmod |
| 46 | B.C | B.C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 century | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | present | the stanzas | for example; as canonical Scripture | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as scripture=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | older versions of some of the stories | the canonical texts | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in text=Location | ||||
| 3 | include | gerund | 4 | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme | |||||
| 4 | illustrate | present · passive | Bharahat sculptures of the third century | many of the stories | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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