The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 54
“Reverend Sir, these men started out with the thought in their minds, ‘We’ll have a fight with the mosquitoes.’
Who acts: Reverend, We, men · What happens: start out, have, mind · To what, where: fight
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 (Reverend, We, men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
| 2 | Reverend | Reverend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Reverend | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 started | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 thought | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thought | det |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minds | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 minds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thought | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 started | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fight | det |
| 21 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 mosquitoes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mosquitoes | det |
| 24 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fight | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out in a quote | past | Reverend | with the thought in men's minds; this men nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with thought=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | We | a fight | with the mosquitoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient | |||
| 3 | mind in a quote | men = man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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