The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 114
Throw away, sir, the old grass, sticks, and water; with lightly burdened carts go ever so quickly; do not overburden the conveyances.”
Who acts: you, burdened carts · What happens: throw away, burden, go, not overburden · To what, where: water, conveyances
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, burdened carts), 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 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Throw | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grass | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grass | amod |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sir | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
| 10 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grass | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 carts | case |
| 16 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 17 burdened | advmod |
| 17 | burdened | burden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 carts | amod |
| 18 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Throw | conj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 overburden | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 overburden | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 overburden | advmod |
| 26 | overburden | overburden | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Throw | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 conveyances | det |
| 28 | conveyances | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 overburden | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throw | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | imperative | you not said here | water | sir vocative; away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | burden | participle | lightly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | burdened carts | ever | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not overburden | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the conveyances | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme conveyance=Recipient |
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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