The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 59
Break the chatties to pieces, throw away the water, travel at ease.”
Who acts: you · What happens: break, throw away · To what, where: chatties, 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 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chatties | det |
| 3 | chatties | chatty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Break | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Break | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 throw | punct |
| 7 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Break | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 throw | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 travel | punct |
| 12 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 ease | case |
| 14 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Break | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | imperative | you not said here | the chatties | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent chatty=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 2 | throw away | infinitive | you not said here | the water | travel at ease obl; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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