The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 34
Having thus pointed out to them the four royal families of serpents, he said: “In case you are successful in cultivating friendship for these, reptiles will not bite you or annoy you.”
Who acts: friendship, four royal families, you, reptiles · What happens: have, point out, say, be, cultivate, not bite · To what, where: four royal families, snakes, friendship, you · 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 (friendship, four royal families, you, reptiles), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pointed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Having | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 families | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 families | nummod |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 families | amod |
| 10 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 serpents | case |
| 12 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 families | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 successful | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 successful | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 successful | case |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 In | fixed |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 successful | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 successful | cop |
| 22 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 cultivating | mark |
| 24 | cultivating | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 successful | advcl |
| 25 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cultivating | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 these | case |
| 27 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 cultivating | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bite | punct |
| 29 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bite | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 bite | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 bite | advmod |
| 32 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 successful | parataxis |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 bite | obj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 annoy | cc |
| 35 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 bite | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 annoy | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | friendship not said here | the four royal families of serpents | snakes = snake | tree rules | |||
| 2 | point out | participle | the four royal families of serpents not said here | thus property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | friendship | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cultivate in a quote | gerund | you not said here | friendship | for these | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent friendship=Product for this=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | not bite in a quote | future | reptiles | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 7 | annoy in a quote | infinitive | reptiles not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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