The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 50
The elephant-trainers reported that incident to the king, remarking: “That noble elephant should be sought out and brought to you, your majesty.”
Who acts: elephant trainers, incident · What happens: report, remark, seek out, bring · To what, where: majesty, noble elephant, you · 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 (elephant trainers, incident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trainers | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trainers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 elephant | punct |
| 4 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reported | nsubj |
| 5 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 remarking | mark |
| 7 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarking | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 incident | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarking | punct |
| 12 | remarking | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 reported | ccomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sought | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sought | punct |
| 15 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 elephant | det |
| 16 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 elephant | amod |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sought | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sought | aux:pass |
| 20 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 remarking | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sought | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sought | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 majesty | punct |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarking | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | the elephant trainers | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | gerund | incident to the king | your majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seek out in a quote | should · passive | that noble elephant | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | participle | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to you=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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