The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 49
Let these miserable wretches do as they like, but let us not kill the members of our own family.”
Who acts: you, miserable wretches, wretches, us · What happens: let, do, like, not kill · To what, where: us, members
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, miserable wretches, wretches, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 wretches | det |
| 3 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wretches | amod |
| 4 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 like | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kill | advmod |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 members | det |
| 16 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 family | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 family | amod |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 members | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | this miserable wretches | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | like | present | wretches = wretch | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not kill | infinitive | us not said here | the members of our own family | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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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