The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 120
Therefore return to your home, and take your son with you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: return, take · To what, where: son
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: 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 return | advmod |
| 2 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 return | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 return | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | to your home result; therefore property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | your son | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
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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