The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 16
And the griffin repented of his evil deeds, and said: “From this day henceforth I will not again eat snakes.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: repent, say, not eat · To what, where: snakes · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 repented | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repented | nsubj |
| 4 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deeds | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deeds | amod |
| 8 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repented | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 14 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obl |
| 17 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 16 day | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 eat | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 eat | advmod |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repent | past | the griffin | of griffin's evil deeds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the griffin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not eat in a quote | future | the griffin = griffin | snakes | again; day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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