The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 116
On the next day you must stand at the door of your hermitage and ask him just as he approaches.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: stand, ask, approach · To what, where: door, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hermitage | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stand | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 approaches | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 approaches | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 approaches | nsubj |
| 20 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | must | you | the door of your hermitage | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | approach | present | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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