The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 1
Then said the youth: “O thou of great and noble heart!
What happens: say · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 O | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 O | punct |
| 7 | O | o | X | _ | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 O | goeswith |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 noble | cc |
| 12 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 O | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=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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