The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 145

At that time a certain wise man saw those monkeys working away in the king’s garden, and said to them: “Master-monkeys, why are you pulling up by the roots every one of those young trees and watering them plentifully or sparingly according as the roots are large or small?”

Who acts: certain wise man, monkeys, Master monkeys · What happens: see, work away, say, pull up, water, accord · To what, where: monkeys, one · 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 (certain wise man, monkeys, Master 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 monkeys	det
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
11	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 monkeys	acl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 working	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 garden	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 working	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 monkeys	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 monkeys	punct
25	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 monkeys	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Master	punct
27	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 large	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pulling	punct
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 pulling	advmod
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 pulling	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 pulling	nsubj
32	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 monkeys	acl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 pulling	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 roots	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 roots	det
36	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pulling	obl
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pulling	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 trees	case
40	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 trees	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 trees	amod
42	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 watering	cc
44	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 pulling	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 watering	obj
46	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	44 watering	advmod
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 sparingly	cc
48	sparingly	sparingly	ADV	_	46 plentifully	conj
49	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 roots	case
50	as	as	ADP	_	49 according	fixed
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 roots	det
52	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 watering	obl
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 large	cop
54	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 small	cc
56	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 large	conj
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	54 large	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	a certain wise man	that monkeys		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
2	work away	gerund	that monkeys not said here				in the king's garden; away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	a certain wise man not said here		monkeys = monkey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	pull up in a quote	present · progressive	monkeys = monkey	every one of that young trees			by the roots	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	water in a quote	gerund	monkeys = monkey not said here	monkeys = monkey			accord the roots; plentifully property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
6	accord in a quote	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	Master monkeys				large property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		Master monkeys not said here					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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 145

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 145