The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 88
Thereupon, monks, the monkey and the elephant said this to the partridge: “You, sir, are our elder.
Who acts: monks, partridge · What happens: say, sir, be · To what, where: this, partridge, elder · 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 (monks, partridge), 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 | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 3 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 monkey | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monks | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 elephant | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elephant | det |
| 9 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monks | conj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 partridge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 partridge | det |
| 14 | partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 sir | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sir | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sir | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sir | punct |
| 19 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 elder | punct |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 elder | cop |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 elder | nmod:poss |
| 23 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sir | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | monks and the monkey and the elephant | this | the partridge | thereupon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to partridge=Recipient | ||
| 2 | sir in a quote | the partridge = partridge | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the partridge = partridge not said here | our elder | our nmod:poss | 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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