The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 123
They led him there and took counsel together, saying: “What can the king do to us!
Who acts: directions, king · What happens: lead, take, say, do · To what, where: cloud, counsel, us · 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 (directions, king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 led | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | directions = direction | cloud | there | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | directions = direction not said here | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | directions = direction not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | can | the king | us | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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