The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
It is not fitting that I should transgress the command of my father.”
Who acts: love, I · What happens: not fit, transgress, command · To what, where: command, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fitting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fitting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fitting | advmod |
| 4 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 transgress | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 transgress | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 transgress | aux |
| 8 | transgress | transgress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fitting | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 command | det |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transgress | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fitting | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fit | present · progressive | love | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | transgress | should | I | the command of my father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | command | my father | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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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