The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 18
So he had the man summoned, told him the situation, and said: “It is out of the question for both of us to go at the same time.
Who acts: Buddha, man, situation · What happens: have, summon, tell, say, be, go · To what, where: situation, Buddha, question · 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 (Buddha, man, situation), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | nsubj |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 situation | det |
| 11 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 question | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 question | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 question | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 question | cop |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 question | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 question | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 question | det |
| 22 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 both | case |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 question | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 both | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 question | acl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Buddha | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | summon | past | the man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Buddha not said here | the situation | Buddha | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient situation=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | situation | the question | for both of us | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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