The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 9
And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and drink my blood before it sinks into the ground, and satisfy your hunger with my flesh, and let your mate eat what is left.”
Who acts: lion, wise boar, blood, mate, your · What happens: eat, say, be, drink, sink, satisfy · To what, where: lion, blood, ground, hunger · 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, wise boar, blood, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 eating | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eating | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eating | aux |
| 5 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eating | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boar | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boar | amod |
| 9 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 quick | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 quick | punct |
| 15 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 quick | cop |
| 16 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 quick | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 blood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drink | obj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 sinks | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sinks | nsubj |
| 23 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 drink | advcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sinks | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 satisfy | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 satisfy | cc |
| 29 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 satisfy | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 flesh | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 34 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 satisfy | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 let | cc |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 mate | nmod:poss |
| 39 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eat | nsubj |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 let | ccomp |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 left | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 left | aux:pass |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 eat | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | lion | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wise boar | lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | my blood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sink in a quote | present | blood | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | satisfy in a quote | infinitive | the wise boar not said here | your hunger | with my flesh | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with flesh=Instrument | |||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | eat in a quote | present | your mate | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | leave in a quote | present · passive | what nsubj:pass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 10 | hunger in a quote | your | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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