The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
Elephant-king, I will do you harm, You who killed my little ones since I was weak.
Who acts: Elephant king, You, I · What happens: harm, kill, be · To what, where: little ones
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 (Elephant king, You, I), 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 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Elephant | punct |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 harm | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 harm | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 harm | nsubj |
| 9 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 harm | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ones | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 weak | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 weak | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 weak | cop |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 killed | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 harm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | infinitive · do-support | Elephant king | you nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | You | my little ones | who nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | I | weak property | 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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