The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 27
Water is at all times hard to get; it must not be wasted.
Who acts: Water · What happens: be, get, not waste · 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: who acts (Water), 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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hard | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 times | det |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hard | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wasted | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wasted | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 wasted | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wasted | aux:pass |
| 14 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hard | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Water | time | hard property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Water not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not waste | must · passive | water | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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