The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 71
Thereupon Jewel-neck the dragon-king, reflecting, “The monk begs the jewel, the monk wants the jewel,” quickly enough departed.
Who acts: dragon king, monk · What happens: reflect, beg, want, depart · To what, where: jewel, dragon king
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 (dragon king, monk), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 neck | advmod |
| 2 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 neck | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jewel | punct |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragon | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reflecting | punct |
| 10 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 king | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begs | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 begs | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monk | det |
| 14 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begs | nsubj |
| 15 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reflecting | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jewel | det |
| 17 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begs | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wants | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monk | det |
| 20 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wants | nsubj |
| 21 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 begs | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 jewel | det |
| 23 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wants | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wants | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 begs | punct |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 28 departed | advmod |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 departed | advmod |
| 28 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 begs | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | gerund | the dragon king Jewel neck not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the monk | the jewel | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent jewel=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the monk | the jewel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | depart | participle | the monk not said here | enough, quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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