The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 68
I expect you to peck out the eyes of that solitary elephant.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: expect, peck out · To what, where: you, eyes
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 expect | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 peck | mark |
| 5 | peck | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expect | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 peck | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peck | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 elephant | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 elephant | det |
| 11 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 elephant | amod |
| 12 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peck out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the eyes of that solitary elephant | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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