The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
The artist has substituted children for monkeys, but has preserved the spirit of the scene.
What happens: substitute, preserve · To what, where: artist, spirit
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 artist | det |
| 2 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substituted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 substituted | aux |
| 4 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 substituted | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 monkeys | case |
| 7 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 substituted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 preserved | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 preserved | cc |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 preserved | aux |
| 11 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 substituted | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preserved | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 scene | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scene | det |
| 16 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 substituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substitute | present · perfect · passive | the artist | for monkeys; children obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | preserve | present · perfect | the spirit of the scene | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Beneficiary |
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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