The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 60
And having so said, he added: “You continue your journey; we have some business that detains us.”
Who acts: weapon, You, we, business, your · What happens: say, add, continue, have, detain, journey · To what, where: journey, business, us · 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 (weapon, You, we, business), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 added | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 added | nsubj |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 continue | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 continue | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 continue | nsubj |
| 11 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continue | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 business | det |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 detains | nsubj |
| 20 | detains | detain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 business | acl:relcl |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 detains | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund · perfect | weapon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | weapon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | continue in a quote | present | You | your journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | we | some business | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient | ||||
| 5 | detain in a quote | present | some business | us | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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