The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 103
I will recite the charm, cause the Rain of Riches, give the riches to the thieves, and go where I please.”
Who acts: I · What happens: recite, cause, give, go, rain · To what, where: charm, Rain, riches, thieves, I
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 recite | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 recite | aux |
| 3 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 charm | det |
| 5 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recite | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cause | punct |
| 7 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 recite | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rain | det |
| 9 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cause | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Riches | case |
| 11 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Rain | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 recite | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 riches | det |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 thieves | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thieves | det |
| 18 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 recite | conj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 I | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 21 go | discourse |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recite | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 recite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | future | I | the charm | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | infinitive | I not said here | the Rain of Riches | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | present | I not said here | the riches | the thieves | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rich=Theme to thief=Recipient | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | I not said here | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rain | Riches | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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