The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 47
Let us, every one, take bows and weapons, go and fight with the mosquitoes, pierce and cut all the mosquitoes, and thus make way with them.”
Who acts: you · What happens: let, take, go, fight, cut, make · To what, where: us, bows, mosquitoes, way
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 (you), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 8 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weapons | cc |
| 10 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bows | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fight | cc |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mosquitoes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mosquitoes | det |
| 17 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pierce | punct |
| 19 | pierce | pierce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mosquitoes | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 mosquitoes | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mosquitoes | det |
| 24 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cut | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 make | advmod |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | every one vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | bows and weapons | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fight | infinitive | you not said here | with the mosquitoes and pierce | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mosquito=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | cut | past | you not said here | all mosquitoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mosquito=Product | ||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | way | with weapons = weapon; thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
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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