The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 42

When the ogre saw him approaching, he caused his own car to turn out of the road and greeted him in a friendly manner, saying: “Where are you going?”

Who acts: ogre, grass, you · What happens: see, approach, cause, turn out, greet, say · To what, where: grass, own car, road, ogre, friendly manner · 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 (ogre, grass, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caused	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caused	nsubj
9	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 car	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 car	amod
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 turn	mark
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caused	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 road	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 greeted	cc
20	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caused	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 greeted	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 manner	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 manner	det
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 manner	amod
25	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 greeted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 greeted	advcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
30	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 going	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 going	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 going	nsubj
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 caused	advcl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	the ogre	grass			tree rules
2	approach	gerund	grass not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cause	past	ogre	ogre's own car			tree rules
4	turn out	to-infinitive	ogre not said here	the road			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
5	greet speech: greet	past	ogre not said here		ogre	a friendly manner	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	say speech: ask	gerund	ogre not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	go in a quote	present · progressive	you				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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 42