The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
I will pull him out of the water and grant him the boon of life.”
Who acts: I · What happens: pull, grant · To what, where: Buddha, water, boon
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), 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 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pull | aux |
| 3 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pull | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pull | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grant | cc |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pull | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boon | det |
| 13 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boon | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | future | I | Buddha | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out water=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grant | present | I not said here | the boon of life | Buddha | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal boon=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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