The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 175
Monkey-gardeners 130 “_When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one_”
Who acts: you, young trees · What happens: tree, pull up · To what, where: gardeners, Monkey gardeners
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young trees), 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 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gardeners | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Monkey | punct |
| 3 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | 130 | 130 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 gardeners | flat |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 trees | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 trees | punct |
| 7 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 trees | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 trees | nsubj |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trees | amod |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 130 | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pull | punct |
| 14 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trees | acl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pull | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 pull | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 roots | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roots | det |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pull | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roots | appos |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 pull | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gardeners | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tree in a quote | you | water nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pull up in a quote | infinitive | the young trees not said here | gardeners = gardener | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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