The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
I’ll tell my kinsfolk, have them fetch ruddy rice by the cart-load, and give it to you.
Who acts: I, crores · What happens: tell, have, fetch, give · To what, where: kinsfolk, crores, ruddy rice, rice, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, crores), 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 | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rice | amod |
| 11 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 load | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 load | det |
| 14 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 load | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 cart | punct |
| 16 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | my kinsfolk | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kinsfolk=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | crores = crore | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch | infinitive | crores = crore not said here | ruddy rice | by the cart load | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | infinitive | I not said here | rice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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