The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
The illustration to Story 22, _Monkey-gardeners_, is taken from Cunningham, Plate xlv.
Who acts: illustration · What happens: story, take, plate · To what, where: 22, illustration, Cunningham, xlv
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 (illustration), 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 illustration | det |
| 2 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | story | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 illustration | acl |
| 5 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 gardeners | punct |
| 8 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gardeners | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Monkey | punct |
| 10 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 illustration | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 gardeners | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Cunningham | case |
| 16 | Cunningham | Cunningham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Plate | punct |
| 18 | Plate | plate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | parataxis |
| 19 | xlv | xlv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Plate | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | story | infinitive | the illustration not said here | 22 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · passive | the illustration | Cunningham | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from cunningham=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | plate | infinitive | xlv | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme xlv=Destination |
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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