The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 96
From that time on he mingled with indoor-folk and tested them with the question, “Is there anybody who says I have a fault?”
Who acts: place, anybody, I · What happens: mingle, test, be, say, have · To what, where: qualities, fault · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (place, anybody, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mingled | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 he | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mingled | nsubj |
| 6 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 folk | case |
| 8 | indoor | indoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folk | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 indoor | punct |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mingled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tested | cc |
| 12 | tested | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mingled | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tested | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 question | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tested | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Is | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Is | punct |
| 19 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mingled | parataxis |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 Is | expl |
| 21 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 Is | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 says | nsubj |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 anybody | acl:relcl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fault | det |
| 27 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 Is | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | past | place | time | with indoor folk | tree rules | |||
| 2 | test | past | place not said here | qualities = quality | with the question | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | anybody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | I | a 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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