The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 114

He said: “Friends, when I was a young monkey, I used to sit on the earth, extend my neck, and eat the tips of the shoots of this banyan tree.

Who acts: Monkey · What happens: say, be, use, sit, extend, eat · To what, where: young monkey, earth, neck, tips · 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 (Monkey), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Friends	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Friends	punct
5	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 monkey	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 monkey	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 monkey	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 monkey	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 monkey	amod
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Friends	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 extend	punct
22	extend	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neck	nmod:poss
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 extend	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tips	det
29	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 shoots	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shoots	det
32	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tips	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 tree	det
35	banyan	banyan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tree	compound
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shoots	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Monkey			Friends and a young monkey ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Monkey	a young monkey			tree rules
3	use in a quote	past	Monkey				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	Monkey not said here		the earth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on earth=Location
5	extend in a quote	infinitive	Monkey not said here	my neck			vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
6	eat in a quote	infinitive	Monkey not said here	the tips of the shoots of this banyan tree			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient

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 tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 114