The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 56
“In bringing water thus far, of course, you have acted wisely.
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, act · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bringing | punct |
| 2 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 bringing | mark |
| 3 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bringing | obj |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 bringing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 acted | punct |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 acted | mark |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 of | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 acted | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 acted | aux |
| 13 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bringing | conj |
| 14 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 13 acted | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | gerund | water | far property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | act in a quote | present · perfect | you | wisely property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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