The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 49
Not a single soldier had the power to lift a weapon.
Who acts: single soldier · What happens: not have, lift · To what, where: power, weapon
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 (single soldier), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soldier | amod |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 power | det |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lift | mark |
| 9 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 power | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 weapon | det |
| 11 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lift | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | a single soldier | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive | a single soldier not said here | a weapon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=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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