The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
Now a certain other king summoned his gardener and asked: “Can you spoil the flavor of my rival’s mango fruit and make it bitter?”
Who acts: certain other king, you · What happens: summon, ask, spoil, make, flavor · To what, where: gardener, flavor, mango fruit · 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 (certain other king, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | nsubj |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gardener | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 summoned | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoil | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoil | punct |
| 13 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoil | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 spoil | nsubj |
| 15 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 summoned | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flavor | det |
| 17 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoil | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fruit | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rival | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 rival | case |
| 22 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fruit | compound |
| 23 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flavor | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spoil | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoil | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | a certain other king | king's gardener | now | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a certain other king not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spoil in a quote | can | you | the flavor of my rival's mango fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | flavor | bitter property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 5 | flavor in a quote | my rival's mango fruit | nom flavor «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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