The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 10
And he gave orders to the gardener: “Pray give the noble monks fruits and other such-like edibles.”
Who acts: disciple, Pray · What happens: give · To what, where: orders, noble monks fruits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disciple, Pray), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fruits | det |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fruits | amod |
| 14 | monks | monks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fruits | compound |
| 15 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 edibles | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 edibles | amod |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 like | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 such | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 edibles | amod |
| 21 | edibles | edible | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fruits | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | disciple | orders | to the gardener | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | Pray | the noble monks fruits and other like edibles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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