The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 100
At that very moment, from the eastern quarter rose the disk of the full moon.
What happens: rise · To what, where: disk, eastern quarter
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. 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 | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 moment | advmod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 quarter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quarter | det |
| 8 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quarter | amod |
| 9 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 disk | det |
| 12 | disk | disk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moon | amod |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disk | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the disk of the full moon | the eastern quarter | moment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient disk=Extent from quarter=Initial_State |
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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