The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
72: i. 319 19 _The whole earth will not satisfy an ungrateful man_
Who acts: whole earth · What happens: not satisfy · To what, where: ungrateful man, 72
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 (whole earth), 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 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 19 | punct |
| 3 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 19 | nsubj |
| 4 | 319 | 319 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 19 | compound |
| 5 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 72 | conj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 satisfy | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earth | amod |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfy | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 satisfy | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 satisfy | advmod |
| 12 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 72 | parataxis |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfy | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 satisfy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not satisfy | future | the whole earth | a ungrateful man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
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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