The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 112
Who will deliver my son from death?”
What happens: deliver · To what, where: son, death
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 deliver | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 deliver | aux |
| 3 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deliver | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deliver | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | future | my son | death | Who nsubj | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme from death=Initial_Location |
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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