The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
I know a way by which he shall not be able to catch us.
Who acts: I, Buddha · What happens: know, not be, catch · To what, where: way, us
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Buddha), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 able | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | shall | Buddha | by a way; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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