The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 70
With Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 22; also the well-known children’s story of the same name.
Who acts: Buddhist Henny · What happens: compare, know · To what, where: A.
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 Henny), 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 | 15 | 15 | 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 | 8 Henny | det |
| 7 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Henny | amod |
| 8 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Penny | punct |
| 10 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Henny | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Henny | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Henny | punct |
| 13 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | obj |
| 15 | Schiefner | Schiefner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 A. | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tales | punct |
| 17 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tales | compound |
| 18 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 A. | conj |
| 19 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Tales | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 story | punct |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 story | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 children | det |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 known | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 story | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 children | case |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compare | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 name | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 name | amod |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 story | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | a Buddhist Henny | A. and Tibetan Tales | with Story; the known children's story of the same name parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent a.=Patient with story=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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