The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 6

Now when the lion heard these words, he was delighted, and said to his mate: “Let our cub eat first; then I will eat, and you shall eat after me.”

Who acts: lion, cub, mate · What happens: hear, be, say, let, eat · To what, where: words, mate · 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 (lion, cub, mate), 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	5 heard	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delighted	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 delighted	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 delighted	cop
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mate	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mate	nmod:poss
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
20	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cub	nmod:poss
22	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Let	parataxis
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 eat	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 eat	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eat	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 eat	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 eat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the lion	this words		now		tree rules
2	is	past	lion				delighted property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the lion not said here		lion's mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	eat in a quote	present	our cub				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat in a quote	future	the lion = lion			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	eat in a quote	shall	lion's mate = mate			after the lion = lion		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 6