The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
If you ask him also when he comes, you may obtain safety for your little ones.”
Who acts: you, King · What happens: ask, come, obtain · To what, where: King, safety
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, King), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 obtain | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 comes | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 comes | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 obtain | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 obtain | aux |
| 12 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obtain | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ones | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ones | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 obtain | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 obtain | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | you | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | present | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | obtain | may | you | safety | for your little ones | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent safety=Theme for one=Asset |
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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