The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
I ought therefore to give my son to these carpenters to help them in their work, and myself go away.”
Who acts: I, myself, carpenters · What happens: give, help, go away, work · To what, where: son, carpenters, work
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself, carpenters), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 carpenters | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 carpenters | det |
| 10 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | ought | I | my son | to this carpenters; therefore property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to carpenter=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | carpenters = carpenter | carpenters's work | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go away | present | myself | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | carpenters = carpenter | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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