The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 62
For not alway does strength avail; For strength is the destruction of a fool.
What happens: do, be · To what, where: strength avail, destruction
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 alway | case |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 alway | advmod |
| 3 | alway | alway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 avail | compound |
| 6 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 destruction | punct |
| 8 | For | for | ADP | _ | 9 strength | case |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destruction | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 destruction | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 destruction | det |
| 12 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fool | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fool | det |
| 15 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destruction | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | strength avail | for alway | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avail=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the destruction | for strength; of a fool | tree rules |
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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