The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 85
In the case of two scenes, where the sculptured objects differ materially from the objects described in the text, the artist has followed the sculptures rather than the text.
Who acts: sculptured objects · What happens: sculpture, differ, describe, follow · To what, where: objects, text, artist, case
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 (sculptured objects), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 followed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 scenes | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 scenes | nummod |
| 6 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 case | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 differ | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 differ | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 objects | det |
| 10 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 objects | amod |
| 11 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 differ | nsubj |
| 12 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 scenes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | materially | materially | ADV | _ | 12 differ | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 objects | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 objects | det |
| 16 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 differ | obl |
| 17 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 objects | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 text | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 text | det |
| 20 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 described | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 artist | det |
| 23 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 followed | aux |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sculptures | det |
| 27 | sculptures | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 followed | obj |
| 28 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 31 text | cc |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 rather | fixed |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 text | det |
| 31 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sculptures | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sculpture | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | differ | present | the sculptured objects | from the objects; materially property | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from object=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | describe | participle | the objects not said here | the text | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | present · perfect · passive | the artist | the case of two scenes | the sculptures rather the text obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme sculpture=Attribute |
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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