The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 128
Said the Teacher in conclusion: “At that time the wise caravan-leader was I myself.”
Who acts: Teacher, wise caravan leader · What happens: say, be · To what, where: conclusion, Teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, wise caravan 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 conclusion | case |
| 5 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | At | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leader | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leader | amod |
| 13 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leader | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 caravan | punct |
| 15 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 I | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 I | cop |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 time | conj |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 I | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Teacher | conclusion | time | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in conclusion=Manner | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the wise caravan leader | the Teacher = teacher | myself obl:unmarked | 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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