The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 146
The monkeys replied: “That’s what the monkey who is our leader told us to do.”
Who acts: monkeys, That, monkey · What happens: reply, be, tell, do · To what, where: leader, us · 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, That, monkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkeys | det |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 what | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monkey | det |
| 10 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 leader | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 leader | cop |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leader | nmod:poss |
| 14 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the monkeys | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the monkey | our leader | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the monkey | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the monkey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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