The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 99
Let us find out which one of us is the oldest, and to him let us offer respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy.’
Who acts: you, us, one · What happens: let, find out, be, offer, mark · To what, where: us, Teacher, respectful greetings, 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, us, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 find | compound:prt |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oldest | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 oldest | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oldest | det |
| 11 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 find | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obl |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 greetings | amod |
| 20 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 offer | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 marks | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 marks | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 marks | amod |
| 24 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 greetings | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 courtesy | case |
| 26 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 marks | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find out | infinitive | us not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | which one of us | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | Teacher | tree rules | |||
| 5 | offer | infinitive | us not said here | respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | ||||
| 6 | 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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