The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 114
“Well then, when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, before he has a chance to sit down, ask, saying: ‘Give me the jewel.’
Who acts: dragon king, king · What happens: come, have, sit down, ask, say, give · To what, where: hermitage, chance, jewel, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon king, king), 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 | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 has | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 comes | mark |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 king | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 has | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hermitage | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 has | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sit | mark |
| 21 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 chance | acl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sit | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sit | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sit | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Give | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Give | punct |
| 29 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 Give | iobj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 jewel | det |
| 32 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Give | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | that dragon king | your hermitage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | king | a chance | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | |||
| 3 | sit down in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | a chance not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | infinitive | the jewel | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jewel=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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