The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 20

Thought the gardener: “I’ll go make holiday;” and said to the monkeys who lived in the garden: “This garden is of great use to you.

Who acts: I, monkeys, garden · What happens: think, go, make, say, live, be · To what, where: gardener, holiday, monkeys, garden, you · 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 (I, monkeys, garden), 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	Thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thought	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Thought	ccomp
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
10	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Thought	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Thought	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 monkeys	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkeys	det
17	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 monkeys	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
25	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 use	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 use	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 use	case
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 use	amod
30	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thought	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 use	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		the gardener				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gardener=Attribute clause=Theme
2	go in a quote	future	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make in a quote	present	I not said here	holiday				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holiday=Product
4	say speech: assert	past			the monkeys			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monkey=Recipient
5	live	past	the monkeys			the garden		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
6	is in a quote	present	this garden		you		of great use	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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 20