The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 189

And he took him in his arms, and said: “Without an equal is he! foremost among men!”

Who acts: man · What happens: take, say, be · To what, where: child, arms, man · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 “	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	Without	without	ADP	_	15 equal	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 equal	det
15	equal	equal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 “	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 he	cop
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 equal	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 he	punct
19	foremost	foremost	ADV	_	21 men	advmod
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 men	case
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 he	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 men	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 he	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	child	man's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
2	say speech: express	past				a equal obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		man		men conj	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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 189

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 189