The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 7
Sakka gave him a bowl of curds, saying: “If you invert this and make a wish, the curds will turn into a mighty river, will set flowing a mighty flood, and will even be able to get and give you a kingdom.”
Who acts: Sakka, you, curds · What happens: give, say, invert, make, turn, set · To what, where: bowl, Sir, this, wish, mighty river, mighty flood · 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 (Sakka, you, curds), 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 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bowl | det |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 curds | case |
| 7 | curds | curd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowl | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 invert | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 invert | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 invert | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 invert | nsubj |
| 14 | invert | invert | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 invert | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invert | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wish | det |
| 19 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turn | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 curds | det |
| 22 | curds | curd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 turn | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | aux |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invert | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 river | amod |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turn | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 set | aux |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invert | conj |
| 32 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 set | xcomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 flood | det |
| 34 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flood | amod |
| 35 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flowing | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 able | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 able | cc |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 able | aux |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 able | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 able | cop |
| 41 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 get | mark |
| 43 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 able | xcomp |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 give | cc |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 get | conj |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 give | iobj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 kingdom | det |
| 48 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 give | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sakka | a bowl of curds | Sir | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Sakka not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | invert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | you | this | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a wish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | future | the curds | a mighty river | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | set in a quote | future | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | flow in a quote | gerund | you not said here | a mighty flood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flood=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | give in a quote | infinitive | a kingdom | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kingdom=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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