The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 54
“Yes, sir,” said that dicer in assent to that dicer.
What happens: say · To what, where: dicer · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dicer | mark |
| 9 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 assent | case |
| 11 | assent | assent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dicer | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dicer | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 dicer | det |
| 14 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that dicer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dicer=Recipient |
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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