The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 46
There one day those utter fools of men assembled and took counsel together, saying: “Folks, when we enter the forest and do our work, the mosquitoes eat us up, and because of this our work is interrupted.
Who acts: utter fools, we, mosquitoes, our · What happens: assemble, take, say, enter, do, eat up · To what, where: counsel, Folks, forest, work, us · 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 (utter fools, we, mosquitoes, our), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 assembled | expl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 fools | det |
| 5 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fools | amod |
| 6 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 assembled | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fools | nmod |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assembled | conj |
| 12 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Folks | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Folks | punct |
| 18 | Folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saying | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enter | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 enter | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 enter | nsubj |
| 22 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Folks | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enter | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 do | cc |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 enter | conj |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 work | nmod:poss |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eat | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mosquitoes | det |
| 31 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 eat | nsubj |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Folks | acl:relcl |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 eat | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 eat | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 interrupted | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 interrupted | cc |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 43 interrupted | mark |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 because | fixed |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 work | det |
| 40 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 work | nmod:poss |
| 41 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 interrupted | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 43 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 assembled | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | that utter fools of men | there | day | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | that utter fools of men not said here | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | that utter fools of men not said here | Folks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent folk=Topic | ||||
| 4 | enter in a quote | present | we | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | we not said here | our work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | eat up in a quote | present | the mosquitoes | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 7 | interrupt in a quote | present · passive | our work | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | work in a quote | our | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | work in a quote | our | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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