The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 141
Now then, throw away those wares in our own caravan which are of little worth, and take those wares in this other caravan which are of great worth.”
Who acts: you, own caravan, other caravan · What happens: throw away, be, take · To what, where: wares, own caravan, other caravan
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, own caravan, other caravan), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 throw | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 then | punct |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 throw | advmod |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 wares | det |
| 7 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 throw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 caravan | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 caravan | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 caravan | amod |
| 11 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 worth | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 worth | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 worth | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 worth | amod |
| 16 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caravan | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | parataxis |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 wares | det |
| 21 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 caravan | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 caravan | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 caravan | amod |
| 25 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 worth | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 worth | cop |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 worth | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 worth | amod |
| 30 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caravan | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | imperative | you not said here | that wares | our own caravan | then; now | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ware=Theme in caravan=Destination | |
| 2 | is | present | our own caravan | of little worth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | that wares | this other caravan | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ware=Value in caravan=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | this other caravan | of great worth | tree rules |
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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