The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 48
Or is it solely because I have performed these duties well that her ladyship does not reveal an inward temper which, in point of fact, she does possess;--not because she does not possess it?
Who acts: temper, I, ladyship, mistress · What happens: be, perform, well, not reveal, possess, not possess · To what, where: duties, inward temper, point, temper, fact
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 (temper, I, ladyship, mistress), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 solely | cc |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 solely | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 solely | nsubj |
| 4 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 performed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 performed | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 performed | aux |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 solely | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 duties | det |
| 10 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 performed | obj |
| 11 | well | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 reveal | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ladyship | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ladyship | ladyship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reveal | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reveal | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 reveal | advmod |
| 17 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 well | ccomp |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 temper | det |
| 19 | inward | inward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 temper | compound |
| 20 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reveal | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 reveal | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 point | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 point | case |
| 24 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reveal | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fact | case |
| 26 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 point | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 possess | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 possess | nsubj |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 possess | aux |
| 30 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reveal | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 possess | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 possess | advmod |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 possess | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | nsubj |
| 36 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 possess | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 possess | advmod |
| 38 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 well | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | obj |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | temper | solely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | present · perfect | I | this duties | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | well | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not reveal | present · do-support | mistress's ladyship | a inward temper | point of fact | which obj | tree rules | ||
| 5 | possess | present · do-support | mistress | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | not possess | present · do-support | mistress | temper | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | point | fact | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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