The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 143
“Very well, sever the tusks with your saw and take them and go your way.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sever, take, go · To what, where: tusks, provisions, way
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 (you), 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 sever | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sever | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | sever | sever | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tusks | det |
| 7 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sever | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 saw | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sever | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sever | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sever | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sever in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the tusks | with your saw; well property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Theme | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | provisions = provision | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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