The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 123
Thereupon the monkey and the elephant said to the wise partridge: “Master, you are older than we.
Who acts: monkey, Master · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wise partridge · 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, Master), 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 | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 elephant | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elephant | det |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monkey | conj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 partridge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 partridge | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 partridge | amod |
| 11 | partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 older | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 older | punct |
| 14 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 older | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 older | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 older | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 older | cop |
| 18 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | nsubj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 we | case |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 older | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the monkey and the elephant | the wise partridge | thereupon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to partridge=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Master | than we; you nsubj; old property | tree rules |
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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