The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 122
The moment he stopped, the ascetic asked: “Give me this jewel you wear.”
Who acts: king, moment, you · What happens: stop, ask, give, wear · To what, where: moment, jewel · 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 (king, moment, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 moment | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ascetic | det |
| 7 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 11 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Give | iobj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 jewel | det |
| 14 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Give | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wear | nsubj |
| 16 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 jewel | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | king | the moment not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector moment=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the moment | the ascetic nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | this jewel | the moment = moment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jewel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | present | you | this jewel not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent jewel=Source |
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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