The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 16
It will be difficult for the men to find firewood and water, and difficult for the oxen to find grass.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, find · To what, where: firewood, grass
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 (men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 difficult | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficult | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 difficult | cop |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 difficult | csubj |
| 10 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 water | cc |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 firewood | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 difficult | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 difficult | cc |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 difficult | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 oxen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oxen | det |
| 18 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 difficult | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 difficult | advcl |
| 21 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the men | firewood and water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | for the oxen | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | grass | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Topic |
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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