The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
Lend ear and listen as attentively as though you were filling a golden tube with lion-marrow.”
Who acts: you · What happens: lend, listen, fill · To what, where: ear, golden tube
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 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 listen | cc |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lend | conj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 attentively | advmod |
| 6 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 4 listen | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 listen | advmod |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 filling | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 filling | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 filling | aux |
| 11 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 listen | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tube | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tube | amod |
| 14 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 marrow | case |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marrow | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lion | punct |
| 18 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | imperative | you not said here | ear | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · progressive | you | a golden tube | with lion marrow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tube=Patient with marrow=Instrument |
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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