The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 168
“Rat-a-tat” it went,--I wish you luck,-- In the region where I dwell.
Who acts: Rat, I · What happens: go, wish, dwell · To what, where: luck, you
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, I), 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 | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tat | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tat | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | tat | tat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | appos |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tat | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | iobj |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wish | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 region | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 region | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 20 region | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 luck | appos |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 dwell | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 dwell | nsubj |
| 23 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 region | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rat | tat nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | luck | you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dwell | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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