The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 91
It may as well be said here as anywhere else that the saffron yellow of the cover is the exact color of the robes of a Buddhist monk.
Who acts: saffron yellow · What happens: say, be · To what, where: artist, exact color · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (saffron yellow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 said | cc |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 anywhere | case |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 said | advmod |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 anywhere | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 color | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 yellow | det |
| 13 | saffron | saffron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yellow | compound |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 color | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cover | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cover | det |
| 17 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yellow | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 color | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 color | det |
| 20 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 color | amod |
| 21 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 robes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 robes | det |
| 24 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 color | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 monk | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 monk | det |
| 27 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monk | amod |
| 28 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 robes | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may · passive | artist | here | anywhere property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the saffron yellow of the cover | the exact color | of the robes of a Buddhist monk | tree rules |
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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