The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 111

Now his wife got angry and said: “Day after day you return empty-handed; I suppose there is some other household outside you have to provide for too.”

Who acts: wife, you, other household · What happens: get, say, return, hand, suppose, be · To what, where: Day, other household · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, you, other household), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 return	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Day	punct
10	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 return	obl:unmarked
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Day	nmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 return	nsubj
14	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handed	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 empty	punct
17	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 return	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 suppose	nsubj
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 suppose	ccomp
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 household	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 household	amod
25	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
26	outside	outside	ADP	_	28 have	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 household	acl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 provide	mark
30	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 too	case
32	too	too	ADV	_	30 provide	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Fowler's wife			now	angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Fowler's wife not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return in a quote	present	you	Day after day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hand in a quote	participle	you not said here					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	suppose in a quote	present	Fowler's wife = wife					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be in a quote	present	some other household		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have in a quote	present	you	some other household not said here				tree rules
8	provide in a quote	to-infinitive	some other household not said here					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition

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 5, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 111