The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 12
Then the gardener told them: “The story goes that a certain gardener’s son once watered the saplings.
Who acts: gardener, story, son · What happens: tell, go, water · To what, where: Monks, saplings · 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 (gardener, story, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 watered | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gardener | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gardener | amod |
| 14 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 gardener | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watered | nsubj |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 watered | advmod |
| 18 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 goes | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 saplings | det |
| 20 | saplings | sapling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the gardener | Monks = monk | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the story | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | water in a quote | past | a certain gardener's son | the saplings | once property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sapling=Destination |
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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