The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 151
Never, in the hands of one who knows not what is good, Does a good undertaking turn out happily.
What happens: not know, be, turn out · 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 one | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Never | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hands | det |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knows | advmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 good | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knows | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Does | punct |
| 15 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 undertaking | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 undertaking | amod |
| 18 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Does | obj |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knows | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 turn | compound:prt |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 turn | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | 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 | |||||
| 3 | turn out | present | happily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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