The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 34
Thought he: “I will beat you with my head and pound you into powder and dust!”
Who acts: I · What happens: think, beat · To what, where: ogre, you, powder · 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 (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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Thought | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 beat | aux |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Thought | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beat | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pound | cc |
| 13 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 powder | case |
| 16 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beat | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dust | cc |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 powder | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | ogre | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beat in a quote | future | I | you | into powder and dust result; with my head you and pound | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with head=Instrument into powder=Result |
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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