The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 23
Likewise also the rat addressed the ascetic: “Stand in such-and-such a place and call me out, saying: ‘Rat!’”
Who acts: rat · What happens: address, stand, call out, say · To what, where: ascetic, such place, Rat · 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 (rat), 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 5 addressed | advmod |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 addressed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addressed | nsubj |
| 5 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ascetic | det |
| 7 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addressed | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stand | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stand | punct |
| 10 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 addressed | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 place | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stand | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 call | cc |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Stand | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 call | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 call | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Rat | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Rat | punct |
| 27 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 saying | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 Rat | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Rat | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the rat | the ascetic | likewise property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand in a quote | infinitive | the rat not said here | such such place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the rat not said here | ascetic | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the rat not said here | Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rat=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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