The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 46
At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap.
What happens: chew · To what, where: tortoise
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chewed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tortoise | det |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chewed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chewed | aux |
| 7 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 chewed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 strips | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strips | det |
| 11 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 all | nmod |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 strap | case |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 strap | nummod |
| 15 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chewed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past · perfect · passive | the tortoise | moment | except one strap | 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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