The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 26
Accordingly, seeing all these advantages in going second, he said: “You, sir, go first.”
Who acts: price, You · What happens: see, go, say · To what, where: advantages · 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 (price, You), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 advantages | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 advantages | det |
| 6 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seeing | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seeing | advcl |
| 9 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 You | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 You | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sir | punct |
| 17 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 You | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sir | punct |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | price not said here | all advantages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | price not said here | second property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | price | accordingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | You | first property | 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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