The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 135
Suppose I were to put poison in the porridge, let that fellow eat it, cause his death, and get the spoils for myself alone!”
Who acts: you, I, fellow · What happens: suppose, put, let, eat, get, spoil · To what, where: poison, porridge · 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, I, fellow), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 porridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porridge | det |
| 9 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fellow | det |
| 13 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 death | punct |
| 17 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 19 death | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spoils | det |
| 24 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 myself | case |
| 26 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 spoils | obl |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 spoils | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | past | I | poison | the porridge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in porridge=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | cause fellow's death | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | that fellow | poison | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | spoil | present | you not said here | for myself; alone property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | die | fellow | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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