The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 116
Do not throw away even so much as a dribble of water, but drive ahead as fast as ever you can.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not throw away, drive, dribble · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 throw | advmod |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 throw | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 throw | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 dribble | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dribble | det |
| 10 | dribble | dribble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 much | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dribble | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drive | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 drive | cc |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | parataxis |
| 16 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 drive | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 drive | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 can | mark |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 can | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 can | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fast | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw away | imperative · do-support | you not said here | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | ever | ahead, fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dribble | water | nom dribble «event transitive»: of=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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