The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
Come, tortoise! use your teeth, and cut the leathern trap!
Who acts: you · What happens: come, use, cut · To what, where: tortoise, teeth, leathern trap
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 (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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tortoise | punct |
| 3 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cut | cc |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trap | det |
| 12 | leathern | leathern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trap | amod |
| 13 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | tortoise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | you not said here | your teeth | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | you not said here | the leathern trap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trap=Product |
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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