The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 131
Approaching the leader of the monkeys, he said: “Master monkey-leader, this garden is of great use even to you.
Who acts: holiday, Master monkey leader · What happens: approach, say, be · To what, where: leader, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holiday, Master monkey leader), 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 | Approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leader | det |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approaching | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 monkeys | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkeys | det |
| 6 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leader | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Approaching | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 leader | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 leader | punct |
| 12 | Master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leader | amod |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leader | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 monkey | punct |
| 15 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 garden | punct |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leader | conj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 use | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 use | amod |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 you | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | holiday not said here | the leader of the monkeys | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | holiday | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Master monkey leader and this garden | of great use | 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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