The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

“Well then, monk, go there, plunge into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cry out: ‘Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove!

Who acts: monk, pretty birds · What happens: go, cry out, let, hear · To what, where: plunge, forest grove, watches, many roost, Supremely

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 (monk, pretty birds), 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	_	7 go	punct
2	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 monk	punct
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plunge	punct
10	plunge	plunge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 grove	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 grove	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grove	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 forest	punct
15	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cry	cc
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	20 watches	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 watches	det
20	watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cry	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 night	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watches	nmod
24	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 cry	compound:prt
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Let	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Let	punct
28	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 go	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 birds	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 birds	amod
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hear	nsubj
32	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Let	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hear	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 roost	punct
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 many	advmod
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 roost	amod
37	as	as	ADP	_	36 many	fixed
38	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Let	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 grove	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 grove	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 grove	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 forest	punct
43	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 roost	nmod
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive	monk	plunge	that forest grove; there	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into grove=Initial_Location
2	cry out speech: express in a quote	infinitive	monk not said here		the watches of the night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout watch=Location
3	let in a quote	infinitive		many roost in this forest grove			tree rules
4	hear in a quote	present	the pretty birds	Supremely			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 37