The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 61

[_Native gloss_: A stick of wood washed up on dry land is of some use: it will cook food; it will warm those who are shivering with the cold; it will remove dangerous objects.

Who acts: stick · What happens: wash up, be, cook, warm, shiver, remove · To what, where: stick, dry land, food, those, dangerous objects

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 (stick), 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	_	4 gloss	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 gloss	punct
3	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gloss	amod
4	gloss	gloss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	obl
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 gloss	punct
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nmod
11	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stick	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 washed	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washed	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 use	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 some	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 use	nsubj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 cook	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cook	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cook	aux
23	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	conj
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cook	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 warm	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 warm	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 warm	aux
28	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cook	conj
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 warm	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 shivering	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 shivering	aux
32	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 those	acl:relcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 cold	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cold	det
35	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shivering	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 remove	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 remove	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 remove	aux
39	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	advcl
40	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 objects	amod
41	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 remove	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wash up	participle		a stick of wood not said here	dry land		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a stick of wood			Native gloss obl; use property	tree rules
3	cook	future	stick	food			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument food=Patient
4	warm	future	stick	those			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	shiver	present · progressive				with the cold; who nsubj	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	remove	future	stick	dangerous objects			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 61