The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 122
You caused a Rain of Riches for others but a moment ago, but you tell us to hold our patience for another year!”
Who acts: You · What happens: cause, tell, hold, rain · To what, where: Rain, us, patience, Riches · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Rain | det |
| 4 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caused | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Riches | case |
| 6 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Rain | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caused | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 moment | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 others | conj |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hold | mark |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tell | xcomp |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 patience | nmod:poss |
| 21 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | You | a Rain of Riches | for others but a moment | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | you | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hold not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | our patience | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme | |||
| 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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