The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 37
I speak no harsh words in anger, I do not praise my own virtues, I restrain myself, Intent on my own good.
Who acts: I · What happens: speak, not praise, restrain · To what, where: harsh words, anger, own virtues, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 words | det |
| 4 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speak | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 praise | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 praise | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 praise | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 praise | advmod |
| 12 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 speak | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 virtues | amod |
| 15 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 praise | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 restrain | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 restrain | nsubj |
| 18 | restrain | restrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 praise | conj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 restrain | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Intent | punct |
| 21 | Intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restrain | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 good | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 good | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 good | amod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Intent | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | I | no harsh words | anger | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not praise | present · do-support | I | my own virtues | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | restrain | present | I | myself | Intent on my own good obl | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer myself=Eventuality |
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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