The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 138
One should not beg or seek to get what is dear to another.
Who acts: One · What happens: not beg, seek, get, be
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 (One), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beg | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 beg | advmod |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 seek | cc |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beg | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seek | xcomp |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 dear | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dear | cop |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dear | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not beg speech: request | should | One | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | One not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | One not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | to another; what nsubj; dear property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/138/