The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 96
On the left stand ministers of state, ladies-in-waiting, and slaves.
To what, where: left stand ministers
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 ministers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ministers | det |
| 3 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ministers | amod |
| 4 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ministers | compound |
| 5 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ministers | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ladies | punct |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ministers | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 waiting | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ladies | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slaves | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slaves | cc |
| 16 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ministers | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ministers | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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