The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 185
The wise man hastened to the king’s house, and said: “Where is the child?
Who acts: wise man · What happens: hasten, say, be · To what, where: wise man, house, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
| 15 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 child | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 child | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the wise man not said here | the king's house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the wise man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the child | tree rules |
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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