The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 150
When the little hares were asked, they pointed out that little hare and said: “He’s the one that told us.”
Who acts: tiger, boar, one · What happens: ask, point out, say, be, tell · To what, where: little hares, one, us · 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 (tiger, boar, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hares | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hares | amod |
| 4 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pointed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pointed | nsubj |
| 9 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pointed | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hare | mark |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hare | amod |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pointed | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pointed | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 told | nsubj |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointed | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the little hares | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | point out | past | tiger | little hare advcl | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | tiger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | boar | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the one | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
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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