The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 73
So soon as my mother is released, I will go; therefore take the drink of immortality thence.”
Who acts: I · What happens: release, go, take · To what, where: mother, drink
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 go | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 released | mark |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 released | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 released | aux:pass |
| 7 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 go | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 released | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 immortality | case |
| 18 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | nmod |
| 19 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | present · passive | my mother | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | go | future | I | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | I not said here | the drink of immortality | thence, therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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