The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 125
From this time forth, therefore, be good enough to give us admonition and needed instruction.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, give, need · To what, where: admonition, us, instruction
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), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 good | obl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 therefore | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 good | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 good | advcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 needed | cc |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | conj |
| 17 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | time | enough, good, therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | admonition | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient admonition=Theme | |||
| 3 | need | past | you not said here | instruction | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot instruction=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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