The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 69
As he stood aside, the younger ascetic said this to Jewel-neck the dragon-king: “Give me the jewel!
Who acts: Neck, younger ascetic · What happens: stand, say, give · To what, where: this, Jewel neck, jewel, younger ascetic · 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 (Neck, younger ascetic), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetic | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ascetic | amod |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 12 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 neck | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jewel | punct |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragon | punct |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neck | appos |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Give | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Give | punct |
| 21 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Give | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 jewel | det |
| 24 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Give | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Neck | aside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the younger ascetic | this | Jewel neck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to neck=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | the younger ascetic not said here | the jewel | the younger ascetic = ascetic | 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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