The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 135
I will not permit you to throw away the old.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not permit, throw away · To what, where: you, old
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 permit | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 permit | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 permit | advmod |
| 4 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 permit | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 throw | mark |
| 7 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permit | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADP | _ | 7 throw | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 old | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throw | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permit | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | future | I | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw away not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the old | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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