The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 163
And setting the little hare down in the cocoanut grove, he said: “Come, show me the spot where you saw what you saw.”
Who acts: grove, you · What happens: set, say, come, show, see · To what, where: little hare, spot, grove · 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 (grove, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 setting | cc |
| 2 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 setting | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 setting | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grove | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grove | det |
| 9 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grove | compound |
| 10 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 setting | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
| 16 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Come | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 saw | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 saw | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | the little hare | down property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hare=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grove | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | show in a quote | infinitive | the spot | grove | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient spot=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | past | you | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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