The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 131

Now that caravan-leader told his drivers what that man had said, adding: “This man surely is no friend of ours, no kinsman or blood-relative.

Who acts: caravan leader, man · What happens: tell, say, add, be · To what, where: drivers, friend · 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 (caravan leader, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 told	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 leader	det
3	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leader	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 caravan	punct
5	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 drivers	nmod:poss
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	iobj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 adding	punct
15	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 friend	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 friend	punct
18	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 friend	nsubj
20	surely	surely	ADV	_	19 man	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 friend	cop
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 friend	det
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adding	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 ours	case
25	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kinsman	punct
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 kinsman	det
28	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 friend	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 relative	cc
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 relative	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 blood	punct
32	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 friend	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	that caravan leader		leader's drivers	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	that man				what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	add speech: assert	gerund	that man not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	this man	ours's friend and no kinsman or blood relative			ours nmod:poss; no kinsman conj; blood relative conj	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 14, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 131