The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 120
If you want money, have patience, and I will cause the Rain of Riches then.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: want, have, cause, rain · To what, where: money, patience, Rain, Riches
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | advcl |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cause | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | aux |
| 12 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rain | det |
| 14 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Riches | case |
| 16 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Rain | nmod |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 cause | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cause | future | I | the Rain of Riches | then | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | |||
| 4 | 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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