The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 124
They bandied words and wrangled with each other, saying, “You alone, I suppose, lift the net!”
Who acts: manner · What happens: bandy, wrangle, say, suppose, lift · To what, where: words, net · 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 (manner), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bandied | nsubj |
| 2 | bandied | bandy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bandied | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wrangled | cc |
| 5 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bandied | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 wrangled | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bandied | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 You | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 You | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 You | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 suppose | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 suppose | nsubj |
| 17 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bandied | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lift | punct |
| 19 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 suppose | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 net | det |
| 21 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lift | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 lift | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bandied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bandy | past | manner | words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrangle | participle | manner not said here | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | manner not said here | You ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | present | manner | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lift in a quote | present | the net | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=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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