The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 84
Unless we see water farther on, we shall not throw away the water we have brought.
Who acts: we · What happens: see, not throw away, bring · 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 (we), 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 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | advcl |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | farther | farther | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 throw | advmod |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADP | _ | 11 throw | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throw | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 water | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | we | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not throw away | shall | we | the water | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect | we | the water not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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