The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
“Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat.
What happens: favor, sit · To what, where: certain ogre, seat
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sire | punct |
| 4 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ogre | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ogre | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ogre | amod |
| 8 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sire | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 favored | punct |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 favored | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ill | punct |
| 12 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ogre | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dwarfish | punct |
| 14 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 favored | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 16 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 seat | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 seat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor in a quote | participle | a certain ogre not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present | your seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
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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