The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 26
Thus, if the two of us do our very best, our friend will save his life.”
Who acts: two, friend · What happens: do, save · To what, where: best, life
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, friend), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 save | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 two | nmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | advcl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 best | nmod:poss |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 best | advmod |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | aux |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | the two of us | our best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | save | future | our friend | Hunter's life | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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