The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 129
This I will not give you,--you ask too much; Nor will I even come back again to your hermitage.
Who acts: I, you, Nor · What happens: not give, ask, come back · To what, where: you, much, hermitage
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 (I, you, Nor), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 I | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | parataxis |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 14 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hermitage | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | you | much | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come back | future | Nor | your hermitage | again | I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location |
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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