The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 56
His companion replied: “Give ear, and I will tell you the story in a few words.”
Who acts: companion · What happens: reply, give, tell · To what, where: ear, story, you, few words · 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 (companion), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 companion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| 6 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Give | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | vāhana's companion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | ear | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | vāhana's companion = companion | the story | you | a few words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic |
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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