The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 105

Said the monks: “We do not understand what you mean by saying that it is like the ‘rat-a-tat’ the little hare heard.

Who acts: We, you, hare · What happens: say, not understand, mean, be, hear · To what, where: monks, little hare, rat tat · 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 (We, you, hare), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monks	det
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Said	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 understand	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 understand	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 understand	advmod
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	parataxis
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 understand	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
12	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 saying	mark
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 understand	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 tat	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tat	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tat	cop
18	like	like	SCONJ	_	25 tat	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tat	det
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 tat	punct
21	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tat	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 tat	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tat	det
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 a	punct
25	tat	tat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	ccomp
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 tat	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hare	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hare	amod
29	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hare	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the monks		tree rules
2	not understand in a quote	present · do-support	We		what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	mean in a quote	present	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	We not said here	the little hare		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hare=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present	hare	the rat tat		tree rules
6	hear in a quote	participle		the little hare not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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 10, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 105