The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 160

So the lion, taking the little hare with him, reassured the throng, saying: “I am going to find out for a fact whether or not the earth collapsed at the spot where the little hare saw what he saw; having so done, I will return.

Who acts: lion, earth, little hare · What happens: take, reassure, say, go, find out, not collapse · To what, where: little hare, throng, fact, spot · 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 (lion, earth, little 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 reassured	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reassured	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lion	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hare	amod
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lion	punct
12	reassured	reassure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 throng	det
14	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reassured	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 reassured	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saying	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 fact	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fact	det
27	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 collapsed	mark
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 whether	fixed
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 collapsed	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 collapsed	nsubj
33	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fact	acl
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 spot	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 collapsed	obl
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 saw	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hare	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hare	amod
40	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	nsubj
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 spot	acl:relcl
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 saw	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 saw	nsubj
44	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 what	acl:relcl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 having	punct
46	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 reassured	advcl
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 done	advmod
48	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 having	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 return	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 return	nsubj
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 return	aux
52	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 reassured	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reassured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the lion not said here		the little hare		with lion	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hare=Destination
2	reassure	past	the lion	the throng				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throng=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the lion not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	the lion = lion					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find out in a quote	to-infinitive	the lion = lion not said here				for a fact	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	not collapse in a quote	past	the earth	a fact not said here		the spot		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fact=Patient
7	see in a quote	past	the little hare	the spot				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
8	see in a quote	past	lion					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	have in a quote	gerund	the lion not said here				done property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	return in a quote	future	the lion = lion					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 160

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 160