The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 135
And he asked him the question: “Can you water the young trees in this garden until I come back?”
Who acts: holiday, Story · What happens: ask, water, come back · To what, where: question, Story, young trees · 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: who acts (holiday, Story), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 9 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 water | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 water | nsubj |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 question | appos |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trees | amod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 water | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | nmod |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | holiday | the question | Story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | water in a quote | can | Story | the young trees in this garden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | present | holiday | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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