The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 146
If to-day I had walked in my own ground, in the region of my fathers, this hawk would not have been equal to a combat with me.”
Who acts: I, hawk · What happens: walk, not be · To what, where: own ground
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 (I, hawk), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 walked | mark |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walked | aux |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 equal | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ground | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 region | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 region | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 region | det |
| 15 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fathers | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 region | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hawk | det |
| 21 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 equal | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 equal | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 equal | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 equal | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 equal | cop |
| 26 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 combat | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 combat | det |
| 29 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 equal | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 combat | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 equal | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | my own ground | day | in the region of my fathers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not is | would · perfect | this hawk | to a combat with me; equal 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.
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