The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 65
Therefore, Master woodpecker, do you take your fledglings and go elsewhere; and do you, Master tortoise, enter the water.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, go, do, enter · To what, where: Master woodpecker, you, water
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 woodpecker | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | Master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woodpecker | amod |
| 4 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woodpecker | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fledglings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 13 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tortoise | punct |
| 19 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tortoise | compound |
| 20 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enter | punct |
| 22 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enter | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | you | Master woodpecker | your fledglings obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | elsewhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you not said here | you | Master tortoise obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | enter | infinitive | you not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination |
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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