The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 155
But I am poor, possessed of meagre wealth, scanty means of enjoyment, a small army, few vehicles, a little kingdom, and unfilled treasuries and storehouses.
Who acts: I, scanty · What happens: be, possess, mean
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, scanty), 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 | _ | 4 poor | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | cop |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 possessed | punct |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 poor | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wealth | case |
| 8 | meagre | meagre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wealth | amod |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 11 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 enjoyment | case |
| 14 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 army | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 army | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 army | amod |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoyment | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vehicles | punct |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 vehicles | amod |
| 21 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 enjoyment | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kingdom | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kingdom | amod |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoyment | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 treasuries | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 treasuries | cc |
| 28 | unfilled | unfilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasuries | amod |
| 29 | treasuries | treasury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poor | appos |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 storehouses | cc |
| 31 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 treasuries | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | unfilled treasuries and storehouses appos; poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess | participle | I not said here | of meagre wealth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | scanty | of enjoyment and a small army and few vehicles and a little kingdom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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