The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 133
On no account must the old grass, sticks, and water, be thrown away.
What happens: throw away · To what, where: old grass
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 account | det |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grass | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 grass | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grass | amod |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sticks | punct |
| 9 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grass | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 water | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 water | cc |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grass | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grass | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 thrown | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | infinitive · passive | the old grass no account and sticks and water | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: on grass=Destination |
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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