The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
Come to that place and call me out, saying: ‘Longfellow!’”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, call out, say · To what, where: place, me, Longfellow · 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 (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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 call | cc |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 call | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 call | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Longfellow | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Longfellow | punct |
| 13 | Longfellow | longfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Longfellow | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Longfellow | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Longfellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | that place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | Longfellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent longfellow=Topic |
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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