The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
The honest dicer is therefore made to administer an emetic to his companion and to admonish him.
Who acts: honest dicer · What happens: make, administer, admonish · To what, where: honest dicer, emetic, companion, latter
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest dicer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dicer | det |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dicer | amod |
| 3 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 administer | mark |
| 8 | administer | administer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 emetic | det |
| 10 | emetic | emetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 administer | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 companion | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companion | nmod:poss |
| 13 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 administer | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 admonish | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 admonish | mark |
| 16 | admonish | admonish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 administer | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 admonish | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the honest dicer | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | administer | to-infinitive | the honest dicer not said here | a emetic | latter's companion | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent emetic=Theme to companion=Recipient | |||
| 3 | admonish | to-infinitive | the honest dicer not said here | latter | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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