The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 72
I shall find some way of dealing with him.”
Who acts: I, way · What happens: find, deal · To what, where: way
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 (I, way), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 dealing | mark |
| 7 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dealing | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | I | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deal | gerund | some way not said here | with Buddha | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
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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