The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 116
Then said the youth her son: “Mother, be not afraid, for this is no griffin!”
Who acts: son, Mother, this · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Mother, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afraid | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 afraid | advmod |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 griffin | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 griffin | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 griffin | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 griffin | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 griffin | det |
| 19 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afraid | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 griffin | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | youth's son | the youth | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive | Mother | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this | for no griffin | tree rules |
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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