The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 22
You must water the saplings on the seventh day.”
To what, where: water
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 water | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 water | aux |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 saplings | det |
| 5 | saplings | sapling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 water | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saplings | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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