The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 87
Now when the ogre had gone, the men asked the Future Buddha: “Noble sir, these men said: ‘Do you see that dark green streak of woods?
Who acts: ogre, men, you · What happens: go, ask, say, see · To what, where: Future Buddha, Noble sir · 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, men, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 asked | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ogre | det |
| 4 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Now | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Buddha | amod |
| 13 | Buddha | buddha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 sir | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sir | punct |
| 16 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sir | amod |
| 17 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 24 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 streak | mark |
| 28 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 streak | amod |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 streak | amod |
| 30 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 woods | case |
| 32 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 streak | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the ogre | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the men | the Future Buddha | now | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | this men | Noble sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | dark green streak of woods ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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