The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
This charm, we are told, was beyond price, of great worth.
Who acts: charm · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (charm), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 charm | det |
| 2 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 price | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 charm | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 charm | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 charm | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 price | cop |
| 9 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 price | case |
| 10 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worth | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 worth | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 worth | amod |
| 14 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 price | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 price | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this charm | beyond price and great worth; great worth conj | 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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