The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 28

What you must do is to pull up the saplings by the roots, note the length of the roots, water plentifully the saplings that have long roots, but sparingly those that have short roots.”

Who acts: you, saplings · What happens: do, be, note, have · To what, where: length, long roots, short roots

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, saplings), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pull	csubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pull	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pull	mark
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pull	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 saplings	det
10	saplings	sapling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pull	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 roots	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roots	det
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pull	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 note	punct
15	note	note	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 pull	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 length	det
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 note	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 roots	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roots	det
20	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 length	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roots	conj
23	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	25 saplings	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 saplings	det
25	saplings	sapling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 water	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 saplings	acl:relcl
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 roots	amod
29	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 those	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 those	cc
32	sparingly	sparingly	ADV	_	33 those	advmod
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 pull	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 those	acl:relcl
36	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 roots	amod
37	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pull	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	must	you		What obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	present			by the roots; those obl; the saplings obj; pull property	tree rules
3	note	infinitive		the length of the roots and water and the saplings		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent length=Topic
4	have	present	the saplings	long roots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	have	present		short roots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 28