The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 45
What’s more, I have in my belly a thunderbolt for weapon.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, have · To what, where: belly
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 belly | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 belly | nmod:poss |
| 9 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thunderbolt | det |
| 11 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belly | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 weapon | case |
| 13 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thunderbolt | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | What nsubj; more property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | my belly and a thunderbolt for weapon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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