The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 106
Suppose we were to live hereafter offering respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy to that one of us who is the oldest!”
Who acts: you, we, hereafter, one · What happens: suppose, live, offer, be, mark · To what, where: hereafter, respectful greetings, one, courtesy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, hereafter, 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obj |
| 7 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 hereafter | acl |
| 8 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 greetings | amod |
| 9 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 offering | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 marks | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 marks | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 marks | amod |
| 13 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 greetings | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 courtesy | case |
| 15 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marks | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offering | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 oldest | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 oldest | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oldest | det |
| 24 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 one | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | past | we | hereafter | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hereafter=Location | ||||
| 3 | offer | gerund | hereafter not said here | respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy | that one of us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to one=Goal | |||
| 4 | is | present | that one of us | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mark | courtesy | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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