The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 124
On the second day the ascetic, standing at the door of the hermitage, said to the dragon-king just as he approached: “Yesterday you would not give me the jewel; to-day I must have it.”
Who acts: ascetic, king, dragon king, I · What happens: stand, say, approach, not give, have · To what, where: door, dragon king, jewel, me, hermitage · 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 (ascetic, king, dragon king, I), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ascetic | det |
| 6 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ascetic | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hermitage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hermitage | det |
| 14 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 king | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 dragon | punct |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 approached | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 approached | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 approached | nsubj |
| 25 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 28 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 give | advmod |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 jewel | det |
| 35 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 to | punct |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obl |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the ascetic not said here | the door of the hermitage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon king | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | king | the dragon king not said here | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give in a quote | would | the dragon king = king | the jewel | me | yesterday | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jewel=Theme | ||
| 5 | have in a quote | must | I | hermitage | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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