The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 108
“This is the way!” said the three animals one day as they sat at the foot of the banyan tree.
Who acts: This, three animals, greetings · What happens: be, say, sit · To what, where: way, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, three animals, greetings), 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 way | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 animals | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 animals | nummod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 sat | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | banyan | banyan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the three animals | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | greetings = greeting | the foot of the banyan tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
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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