The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 73
For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, see W. A. Clouston, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, as follows: Story 2: i. 223-241.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, follow, account · To what, where: W., Story, history
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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 account | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 account | det |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 account | amod |
| 4 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 history | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 history | det |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 account | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 history | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stories | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 W. | flat |
| 17 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 W. | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 W. | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tales | punct |
| 20 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tales | amod |
| 21 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fictions | cc |
| 23 | Fictions | fiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Tales | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tales | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 follows | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 follows | mark |
| 27 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Story | punct |
| 29 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 follows | obj |
| 30 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 Story | flat |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 i. | punct |
| 32 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 see | obj |
| 33 | 223-241 | 223-241 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 i. | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | W. | for a interesting account of the history of some of the stories; Popular Tales and Fictions obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | present | you not said here | Story | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | the history of some of the stories | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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