The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 41
In all the time I have harried this road, I have never seen a single man to match him!
Who acts: I · What happens: harry, not see, match · To what, where: road, single man, ogre
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 harried | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harried | aux |
| 7 | harried | harry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 match | mark |
| 19 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 match | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harry | present · perfect | I | this road | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect | I | a single man | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | match | to-infinitive | I not said here | ogre | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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