The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 141
Moreover, on the bank of that very river there was a certain silk-cotton tree, and in it lived a certain young parrot.
What happens: be · To what, where: tree
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: 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 11 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bank | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 river | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 river | advmod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bank | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 14 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cotton | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 silk | punct |
| 16 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | obl |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 parrot | det |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parrot | amod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parrot | amod |
| 26 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | a certain young parrot obj; live property | 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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