The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 121

But the old woman said: “By no means! for in a still higher sense you yourself are my very own son, since you have shown such a measure of compassion to me and my son at this time.”

Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: say, mean, be, show, measure · To what, where: own son, measure, compassion · 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 (old woman, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
8	By	by	ADP	_	9 no	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 means	obl
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 sense	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 sense	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sense	det
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 higher	advmod
16	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 sense	amod
17	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 son	nsubj
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 you	nmod
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 son	cop
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 own	advmod
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 son	amod
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sense	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shown	punct
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 shown	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 shown	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 shown	aux
29	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 means	conj
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 measure	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 measure	det
32	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shown	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 compassion	case
34	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 measure	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 compassion	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 son	cc
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 son	nmod:poss
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 me	conj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 time	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shown	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean in a quote	present				by no; for a higher sense	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for sense=Attribute
3	is a in a quote	present	you	my own son		my nmod:poss	tree rules
4	show in a quote	present · perfect	you	such measure of compassion to me	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent measure=Recipient
5	measure in a quote			compassion to me			nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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 16, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 121