The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 73
“Yes, your majesty,” said the gardener, and described his own marvelous powers.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: say, describe · To what, where: own marvelous powers · 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 (gardener), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gardener | det |
| 10 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 described | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 described | cc |
| 13 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 powers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 powers | amod |
| 16 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 powers | amod |
| 17 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 described | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the gardener | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | describe | past | the gardener not said here | gardener's own marvelous powers | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent power=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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