The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 66
“Well then, ask that dragon for the jewel, saying: ‘Give me the jewel!
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, say, give · To what, where: dragon, 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ask | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dragon | mark |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 jewel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jewel | det |
| 10 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ask | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 15 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Give | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jewel | det |
| 18 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Give | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | dragon | then | for the jewel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the jewel | Jewel | 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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