The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
The soothsayers have told us: ‘Seven days hence she will give birth to a son.’
Who acts: Seven days · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: soothsayers, us, birth, son · 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 (Seven days), 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 | 2 soothsayers | det |
| 2 | soothsayers | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 8 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | nsubj |
| 10 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 13 give | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | parataxis |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | the soothsayers | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | future | Seven days | birth | a son | Kosala nsubj; hence property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient |
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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