The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 74
A son,--both deaf and dumb!-- Split his father’s skull!
What happens: split · To what, where: skull
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deaf | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 son | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 deaf | punct |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 deaf | advmod |
| 6 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dumb | cc |
| 8 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deaf | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 deaf | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Split | punct |
| 11 | Split | split | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 deaf | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skull | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Split | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 deaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | infinitive | son's father's skull | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |
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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