The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 131
Are these the good qualities of your own king which you have just recited?”
What happens: be, recite · To what, where: good qualities, own king
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 qualities | cop |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 qualities | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 qualities | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 qualities | amod |
| 5 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 king | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 qualities | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 recited | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 recited | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 recited | advmod |
| 14 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 recited | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 qualities | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this good qualities | of your own king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recite | present · perfect · passive | your own king | you nsubj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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