The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 36
There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings without feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with two feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with four feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with many feet.
Who acts: friendship, friendship ’ · What happens: be
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 (friendship, friendship ’), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 4 ’ | goeswith |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ’ | goeswith |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beings | cc |
| 8 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beings | amod |
| 9 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 me | conj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ’ | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ | ' | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 18 me | amod |
| 17 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 16 ’ | goeswith |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 friendship | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beings | cc |
| 20 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beings | amod |
| 21 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 friendship | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nummod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 beings | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 is | punct |
| 26 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 is | expl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ’ | cop |
| 28 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 is | nsubj |
| 29 | ’ | ' | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 15 friendship | appos |
| 30 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 29 ’ | goeswith |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 ’ | iobj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 beings | cc |
| 33 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beings | amod |
| 34 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 friendship | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 feet | case |
| 36 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 feet | nummod |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 friendship | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 is | punct |
| 39 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 is | expl |
| 40 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 41 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ’ | compound |
| 42 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 40 is | nsubj |
| 43 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 42 ’ | goeswith |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 ’ | goeswith |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 beings | cc |
| 46 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 beings | amod |
| 47 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 me | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 feet | case |
| 49 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 feet | amod |
| 50 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 ’ | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | friendship | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | friendship me with four feet and living beings with two feet and living beings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | friendship ’ me with many feet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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