The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 138
Therefore do you and the cub eat me, for thus you will save your lives!
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, save · To what, where: me, lives
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 eat | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cub | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cub | det |
| 6 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 you | conj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 save | mark |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 save | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 save | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eat | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | you | me | therefore property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | save | future | you | your lives | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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