The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 3
Since the elephants bothered him, he said: “The elephants annoy me; drive them away.”
Who acts: elephants, Sir · What happens: bother, say, annoy, drive away · To what, where: Sir, elephants · 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 (elephants, Sir), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 bothered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephants | det |
| 3 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bothered | nsubj |
| 4 | bothered | bother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bothered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bothered | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoy | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elephants | det |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 annoy | nsubj |
| 13 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 annoy | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 drive | punct |
| 16 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 annoy | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drive | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 drive | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoy | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bother | past | the elephants | Sir | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | annoy in a quote | infinitive | the elephants | Sir | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | drive away in a quote | infinitive | the elephants not said here | elephants = elephant | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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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