The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

And seeing the ivory-carvers making various kinds of ivory products, he asked: “But, sirs, how much would you make if you could get the tusk of a real live elephant?”

Who acts: man, ivory carvers, you · What happens: see, make, ask, get · To what, where: ivory carvers, various kinds, tusk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ivory carvers, you), 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	_	15 asked	cc
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 asked	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 carvers	det
4	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carvers	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ivory	punct
6	carvers	carver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seeing	obj
7	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 carvers	acl
8	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 making	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 products	case
11	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 products	compound
12	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kinds	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seeing	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 sirs	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 sirs	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sirs	punct
20	sirs	sir	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sirs	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tusk	det
32	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 elephant	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 elephant	det
35	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elephant	amod
36	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elephant	amod
37	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tusk	nmod
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 sirs	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 sirs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	man not said here	the ivory carvers		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carver=Stimulus
2	make	gerund	the ivory carvers not said here	various kinds of ivory products		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product
3	ask speech: ask	past	man		sirs parataxis	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	would	you			tree rules
5	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	you	the tusk of a real live elephant		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tusk=Stimulus

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 131