The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 138
So saying, he gave those monkeys water-skins and wooden water-pots to use in watering the trees, and departed.
Who acts: holiday, monkeys · What happens: say, give, skin, use, water, depart · To what, where: trees · 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, monkeys), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 skins | det |
| 7 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skins | nsubj |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skins | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
| 10 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pots | cc |
| 12 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pots | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pots | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 15 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skins | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gave | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 watering | mark |
| 19 | watering | water | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 use | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 watering | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 departed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 departed | cc |
| 24 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | holiday not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | holiday | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | skin | monkeys | wooden water pots conj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | holiday not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | water | gerund | holiday not said here | the trees | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Destination | ||||
| 6 | depart | past | holiday not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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