The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 156
And the hatchet will fetch wood, make a fire, and turn it over to you.”
Who acts: hatchet · What happens: fetch, make, turn over · To what, where: wood, fire, you
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hatchet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fetch | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hatchet | det |
| 3 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetch | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fetch | aux |
| 5 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fetch | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turn | cc |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fetch | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 turn | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetch | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | future | the hatchet | wood | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | the hatchet not said here | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | turn over | infinitive | the hatchet not said here | wood | you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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