The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 152
“True, Exalted One!”
What happens: exalt · To what, where: One
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Exalted | punct |
| 2 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Exalted | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Exalted | punct |
| 4 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Exalted | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Exalted | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Exalted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt in a quote | participle | One | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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