The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 23
And as he sat on one side, I said this to that monk:
Who acts: host, I · What happens: sit, say · To what, where: one side, this, monk · 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 (host, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 monk | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 monk | det |
| 14 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | host | one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | this | that monk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to monk=Recipient |
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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