The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 26
Now the leader of the monkeys said to the monkeys: “Wait a moment!
Who acts: leader · What happens: say, wait · To what, where: monkeys · 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 (leader), 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 | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leader | det |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 monkeys | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkeys | det |
| 6 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leader | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 monkeys | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monkeys | det |
| 10 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wait | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wait | punct |
| 13 | Wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wait | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the leader of the monkeys | the monkeys | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monkey=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | the leader of the monkeys not said here | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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