The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 62
Then the snakes, the sons of Kadrū, said to the griffin, the son of Vinatā: “O griffin, the gods have begun to churn the sea of milk.
Who acts: snakes, griffin · What happens: say, begin, churn · To what, where: griffin, gods, sea · 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 (snakes, griffin), 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 | 10 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snakes | det |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sons | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snakes | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kadrū | case |
| 8 | Kadrū | Kadrū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snakes | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 griffin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 griffin | det |
| 13 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 griffin | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Vinatā | case |
| 18 | Vinatā | Vinatā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 griffin | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 griffin | punct |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 22 griffin | discourse |
| 22 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 begun | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gods | det |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 begun | aux |
| 27 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 griffin | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 churn | mark |
| 29 | churn | churn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 begun | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 churn | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 milk | case |
| 33 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sea | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the snakes | the griffin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to griffin=Recipient | |||
| 2 | begin in a quote | present · perfect · passive | griffin not said here | the gods | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | churn in a quote | to-infinitive | griffin not said here | the sea of milk | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product |
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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