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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 37

Brahman, you don’t know what you are talking about When you blame us like this; For how, unless we see the roots, Can we know whether the tree stands firm?

Who acts: Brahman, you, we, tree · What happens: not know, talk, blame, see, know, stand · To what, where: us, roots · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Brahman, you, we, tree), 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

nsubjpunctnsubjauxadvmodoblnsubjauxccompmarkadvmodnsubjadvclobjcaseoblpunctcaseconjpunctmarknsubjparataxisdetobjpunctauxnsubjconjmarkdetnsubjccompxcomppunctrootBrahmanNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONdoAUXn’tPARTknowVERBwhatPRONyouPRONareAUXtalkingVERBaboutSCONJWhenADVyouPRONblameVERBusPRONlikeADPthisPRON;PUNCTForADPhowADV,PUNCTunlessSCONJwePRONseeVERBtheDETrootsNOUN,PUNCTCanAUXwePRONknowVERBwhetherSCONJtheDETtreeNOUNstandsVERBfirmADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrahmanbrahmanNOUNNumber=Sing6 knownsubj
2,,PUNCT_1 Brahmanpunct
3youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 knownsubj
4dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 knowaux
5n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 knowadvmod
6knowknowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel10 talkingobl
8youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 talkingnsubj
9arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 talkingaux
10talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 knowccomp
11aboutaboutSCONJ_14 blamemark
12WhenwhenADVPronType=Int14 blameadvmod
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 blamensubj
14blameblameVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 talkingadvcl
15uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs14 blameobj
16likelikeADP_17 thiscase
17thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 blameobl
18;;PUNCT_20 howpunct
19ForforADP_20 howcase
20howhowADVPronType=Int6 knowconj
21,,PUNCT_24 seepunct
22unlessunlessSCONJ_24 seemark
23wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 seensubj
24seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 knowparataxis
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 rootsdet
26rootsrootNOUNNumber=Plur24 seeobj
27,,PUNCT_30 knowpunct
28CancanAUXVerbForm=Fin30 knowaux
29wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs30 knownsubj
30knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf24 seeconj
31whetherwhetherSCONJ_34 standsmark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 treedet
33treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing34 standsnsubj
34standsstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 knowccomp
35firmfirmADJDegree=Pos34 standsxcomp
36??PUNCT_6 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not knowpresent · do-supportBrahmanyou nsubjvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2talkpresent · progressiveyouwhat oblvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3blamepresentyouuslike thisvn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4see a condition, not said to happenpresentwethe rootsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer root=Stimulus
5knowcanwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6standpresentthe treefirm propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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