The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
“Such-and-such,” was the reply.
What happens: be
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 such | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 such | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 such | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 such | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 reply | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 such | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 such | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reply | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reply | det |
| 11 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | such the reply | 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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