The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 95
If I know, ‘This, for example, is a fault in me,’ I will get rid of it and have to do with good qualities only.”
Who acts: I, This · What happens: know, be, get, have, do · 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 (I, This), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
| 6 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fault | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 example | case |
| 9 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fault | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 example | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fault | det |
| 13 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fault | conj |
| 21 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rid | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | xcomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 qualities | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 qualities | amod |
| 30 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 do | obl |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | a fault | for example; in me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | future | I | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | with good qualities | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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