The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 74
Then, taking them with him, he went to the second dicer’s and said: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”
Who acts: Buddha, us · What happens: take, go, say, come, sir, let · To what, where: personages, second dicer, us, dice · 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 (Buddha, us), 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 | 3 taking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taking | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dicer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dicer | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 dicer | amod |
| 13 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PUNCT | _ | 13 dicer | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 19 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sir | punct |
| 21 | sir | sir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | conj |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 dice | case |
| 27 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 play | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Buddha not said here | personages = personage | then | with Buddha | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Buddha | the second dicer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dicer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Buddha not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | sir in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | play in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | dice | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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