The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 143
“Very well,” said the monkeys, promising to do as he told them to.
Who acts: monkeys, water · What happens: say, promise, do, tell · To what, where: monkeys · 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 (monkeys, water), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monkeys | det |
| 8 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promising | punct |
| 10 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promising | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 told | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the monkeys | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | gerund | the monkeys not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the monkeys not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | water | monkeys = monkey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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