The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 112
_Never, in the hands of one who knows not what is good.
What happens: not know, be · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hands | nsubj |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 hands | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hands | det |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hands | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knows | advmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 good | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | what nsubj; good 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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