The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 13
And the goddess said to him: “My son, I am pleased with this sacrifice of thy body and blood.
Who acts: goddess, son · What happens: say, be, sacrifice · To what, where: griffin, body · 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: who acts (goddess, son), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goddess | det |
| 3 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleased | cop |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sacrifice | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 sacrifice | det |
| 17 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleased | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sacrifice | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blood | cc |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the goddess | griffin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | My son | with this sacrifice of thy body and blood; I nsubj; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice in a quote | thy body and blood | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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