The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 122
He said to his slaves and servants: “Come, fellows! take me and conduct me to mid-stream and bathe me and bring me back.”
Who acts: cloud · What happens: say, come, take, conduct, bathe, bring back · To what, where: slaves, cloud, mid-stream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 slaves | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 servants | cc |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slaves | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fellows | punct |
| 12 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Come | vocative |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Come | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 conduct | cc |
| 17 | conduct | conduct | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 conduct | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mid-stream | case |
| 20 | mid-stream | mid-stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conduct | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bathe | cc |
| 22 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bathe | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | cloud | cloud's slaves and servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to slave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | fellows vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | cloud | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||||
| 4 | conduct in a quote | infinitive | cloud | mid-stream | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mid-stream=Destination | ||||
| 5 | bathe in a quote | infinitive | cloud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination | |||||
| 6 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | cloud | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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