The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 72
But if you are afraid, I will put it on a bed of darbha-grass.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, put · To what, where: drink, bed
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, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 afraid | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 put | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grass | case |
| 15 | darbha | darbha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grass | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 darbha | punct |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | future | I | drink | a bed of darbha grass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bed=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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