The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 147
But dearer to me than these a thousand times,--a hundred thousand times,--are the Tusks of Omniscience, which avail to the comprehension of all things.
What happens: be, comprehend · To what, where: Tusks, things
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 dearer | cc |
| 2 | dearer | dear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dearer | obl |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 times | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dearer | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dearer | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 times | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | compound |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dearer | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 times | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tusks | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Tusks | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tusks | det |
| 20 | Tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dearer | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Omniscience | case |
| 22 | Omniscience | Omniscience | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tusks | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 avail | punct |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 25 avail | det |
| 25 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Omniscience | appos |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 comprehension | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 comprehension | det |
| 28 | comprehension | comprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 avail | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 things | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 things | det |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 comprehension | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dearer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Tusks | of Omniscience | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comprehend | all things | nom comprehension «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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