The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 47
But has her ladyship, in point of fact, an inward temper which she does not reveal, or has she not?
Who acts: mistress · What happens: have, not reveal, not have, point · To what, where: ladyship, mistress, fact
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: who acts (mistress), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 has | cc |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ladyship | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ladyship | ladyship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 point | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ladyship | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fact | case |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 temper | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 temper | det |
| 12 | inward | inward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 temper | compound |
| 13 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ladyship | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reveal | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reveal | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 reveal | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 reveal | advmod |
| 18 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ladyship | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 has | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 has | advmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | mistress's ladyship and a inward temper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladyship=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not reveal | present · do-support | mistress | mistress's ladyship and a inward temper | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not have | present | mistress | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 4 | point | fact | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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