The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 29

But that other, the man, because it was his custom to betray his friends, said not so much as a word according to custom.

Who acts: other, rice, man · What happens: man, be, betray, not say, accord · To what, where: custom, friends · 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 (other, rice, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 man	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 custom	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 custom	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 custom	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 custom	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 custom	nmod:poss
12	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 betray	mark
14	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 custom	acl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 betray	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 said	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 word	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 custom	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 word	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	man		that other			tree rules
2	is a	past	rice	man's custom	man nmod:poss	tree rules
3	betray	to-infinitive	that other not said here	man's friends		tree rules
4	not say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 29