The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
To an ungrateful man Ever looking for an opening You may give the whole earth And yet not satisfy him.
Who acts: You · What happens: look, give, not satisfy · To what, where: whole earth, earth
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 (You), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 5 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 looking | advmod |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 opening | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 opening | det |
| 9 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 opening | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 earth | amod |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 satisfy | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 satisfy | advmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 satisfy | advmod |
| 19 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 earth | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 satisfy | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | ever | to a ungrateful man; for a opening | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | may | You | the whole earth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not satisfy | infinitive | You not said here | earth | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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