The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 2
I will satisfy the hunger of my friends with my own body and blood.”
Who acts: I, friends · What happens: satisfy, hunger · To what, where: hunger
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 (I, friends), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 satisfy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 satisfy | aux |
| 3 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunger | det |
| 5 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 satisfy | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunger | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 satisfy | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blood | cc |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 satisfy | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 satisfy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | future | I | the hunger of my friends | with my own body and blood | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with body=Instrument | |||
| 2 | hunger | my friends | nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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