The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 106
“If you want ransom-money, quickly free me from my bonds, bathe my head, clothe me with new garments, perfume me with scents, deck me with flowers, and set me on my feet.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: want, bathe, clothe, perfume, deck, set · To what, where: ransom money, head, Future Buddha, feet
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 (you, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 want | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ransom | punct |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 free | punct |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 free | advmod |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 want | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 free | nsubj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 bonds | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bonds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 free | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bathe | punct |
| 16 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bathe | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clothe | punct |
| 20 | clothe | clothe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 bathe | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 clothe | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 garments | case |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 garments | amod |
| 24 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clothe | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perfume | punct |
| 26 | perfume | perfume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 bathe | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 perfume | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 scents | case |
| 29 | scents | scent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 perfume | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deck | punct |
| 31 | deck | deck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 bathe | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 deck | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 flowers | case |
| 34 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 deck | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 set | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 set | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 feet | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 feet | nmod:poss |
| 41 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 set | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | you | ransom money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bathe in a quote | infinitive | my head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | |||||
| 3 | clothe in a quote | infinitive | the Future Buddha = buddha | with new garments | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | perfume in a quote | infinitive | the Future Buddha = buddha | with scents | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with scent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deck in a quote | infinitive | the Future Buddha = buddha | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with flower=Theme | ||||
| 6 | set in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the Future Buddha = buddha | my feet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on foot=Destination | |||
| 7 | bond in a quote | my | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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