The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 139
I came with this thought in my mind: ‘I will ask you for a fragment of one of your tusks; if you will give it to me, I will take it and go and sell it and with the money it brings make a living.’”
Who acts: I, you, tusk, my · What happens: come, ask, give, take, go, sell · To what, where: mind, you, tusk, me, living
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, tusk, my), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 thought | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | det |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | aux |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | iobj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fragment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fragment | det |
| 17 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 fragment | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tusks | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 give | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 give | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 give | aux |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ask | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 give | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 give | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 take | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 take | aux |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ask | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 take | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 go | cc |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 take | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sell | cc |
| 39 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 take | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sell | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 brings | cc |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 money | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 money | det |
| 44 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 brings | obl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 brings | nsubj |
| 46 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 take | conj |
| 47 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 brings | xcomp |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 living | det |
| 49 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 make | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | my mind | with this thought | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | I | you | for a fragment of one of your tusks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | tusk | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | take | future | I | tusk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sell | infinitive | I not said here | tusk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring | present | tusk | with the money | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make | infinitive | tusk not said here | a living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | ||||
| 9 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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