The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 64
“For no reason at all, my lady.”
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 | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 reason | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 reason | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lady | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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