The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
Then to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Her ladyship does, in point of fact, possess an inward temper which she does not reveal;--it is not because she does not possess it.
Who acts: Blackie, ladyship, temper · What happens: servant, occur, follow, do, possess, not reveal · To what, where: following thought, point, inward temper, 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 (Blackie, ladyship, temper), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Servant | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 Servant | mark |
| 3 | Servant | servant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Blackie | Blackie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Servant | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thought | amod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
| 11 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ladyship | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ladyship | ladyship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Servant | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 point | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 point | case |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fact | case |
| 18 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 point | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 possess | punct |
| 20 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Servant | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 temper | det |
| 22 | inward | inward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 temper | compound |
| 23 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possess | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 reveal | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 reveal | nsubj |
| 26 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 reveal | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 reveal | advmod |
| 28 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 temper | acl:relcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 Servant | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 possess | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 possess | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 possess | advmod |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 possess | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | nsubj |
| 36 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 possess | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 possess | advmod |
| 38 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Servant | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servant | to-infinitive | then | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | occur | past | Blackie | the following thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | Blackie's ladyship | point of fact | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | possess in a quote | infinitive | a inward temper | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot temper=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not reveal in a quote | present · do-support | Blackie | a inward temper | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 7 | not is in a quote | present · do-support | temper | Blackie nsubj; point obj; possess property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | point in a quote | 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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