The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 54

“The cart that approaches last moves as though it were excessively heavy; what goods have you in that?”

Who acts: cart, forest · What happens: approach, be, have · To what, where: last moves, you, that

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 (cart, forest), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cart	det
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 approaches	nsubj
5	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cart	acl:relcl
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moves	amod
7	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 approaches	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 heavy	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heavy	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
12	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 approaches	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 have	obj
16	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 have	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach in a quote	present	the cart	last moves			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	forest			excessively, heavy property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	the cart	you	that	what obj; goods nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 54