The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 15
If to-day I had walked in my own ground, in the region of my fathers, this hawk would certainly not have been equal to coming to a combat with me.”
Who acts: I, hawk · What happens: walk, not be, come · To what, where: own ground, combat
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 (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 | 27 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 | 27 equal | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 equal | aux |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 27 equal | advmod |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 equal | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 equal | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 equal | cop |
| 27 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 29 coming | mark |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 equal | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 combat | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 combat | det |
| 32 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coming | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 coming | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 equal | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 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 | certainly, equal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | this hawk not said here | a combat | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to combat=Initial_Location |
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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