The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 43
As soon as the king heard the message, he said: “Let’s catch the bandit;” and sallied forth.
Who acts: king, ’s · What happens: hear, say, let, catch, sally · To what, where: message, ’s, bandit · 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 (king, ’s), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 message | det |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 14 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Let | obj |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bandit | det |
| 18 | bandit | bandit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sallied | cc |
| 22 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 sallied | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | the message | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | ’s | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | infinitive | ’s not said here | the bandit | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bandit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sally | past | king not said here | forth property | tree rules |
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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