The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 79
See, my lady, the work of the tranquil woman!
Who acts: you, tranquil woman · What happens: see, work · To what, where: lady
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 (you, tranquil woman), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lady | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | my lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | work | the tranquil woman | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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