The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 102
Suppose we were to divide this caravan into two caravans of five hundred carts each!”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: suppose, divide · To what, where: caravan, two caravans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 divide | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 divide | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 divide | mark |
| 5 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 caravan | det |
| 7 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 divide | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 caravans | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 caravans | nummod |
| 10 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 divide | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 carts | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 carts | nummod |
| 14 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caravans | nmod |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 carts | appos |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | divide | past | we | this caravan | two caravans of hundred carts | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=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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