The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
With Story 21, _How not to kill an insect_, compare Aesop’s fable of the Bald Man and the Fly.
What happens: not kill, compare · To what, where: insect, fable
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Story | case |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obl |
| 3 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 kill | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 kill | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 insect | det |
| 11 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 compare | punct |
| 14 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 kill | parataxis |
| 15 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fable | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Aesop | case |
| 17 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 compare | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Man | det |
| 20 | Bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Man | amod |
| 21 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fable | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Fly | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fly | det |
| 24 | Fly | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Man | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | to-infinitive | a insect | with Story | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent insect=Patient with story=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | compare | infinitive | Aesop's fable of the Bald Man and the Fly | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient |
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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