The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 54
“I didn’t come for timber, I assure you, but I came for this elephant.”
Who acts: carpenters · What happens: not come, assure, come · To what, where: you
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 timber | case |
| 7 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assure | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 assure | nsubj |
| 10 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 assure | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 assure | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 elephant | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | the carpenters = carpenter | for timber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assure in a quote | present | the carpenters = carpenter | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the carpenters = carpenter | for this elephant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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