The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 1
Having given him the little hatchet, Sakka went to the second ascetic and asked: “Reverend Sir, what do you need?”
Who acts: Sakka, you · What happens: have, give, go, ask, need · To what, where: little hatchet, second ascetic, Reverend Sir · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sakka, you), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 2 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Having | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hatchet | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hatchet | amod |
| 6 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 8 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ascetic | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ascetic | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 ascetic | amod |
| 13 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 18 | Reverend | Reverend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sir | compound |
| 19 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 need | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 need | obj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 need | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 need | nsubj |
| 24 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Sakka not said here | the little hatchet | give him = he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | Sakka | the second ascetic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ascetic=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Sakka not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | need in a quote | present · do-support | you | Reverend Sir | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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