The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 108
_True is this saying of some men of the world.
Who acts: _ True · What happens: be · To what, where: saying
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ True), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 True | compound |
| 2 | True | True | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saying | det |
| 5 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saying | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ True | this saying | of some men of the world | 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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