The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 94
The time has come for me to find out whether I have any fault.
Who acts: time, I · What happens: come, find out, have · To what, where: fault
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 (time, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 find | compound:prt |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fault | det |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | the time | for me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | the time not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | any fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=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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