The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 31

But he said: “Reverend Sir, when I am established in my kingdom, be good enough to come and see me; I’ll furnish you with the Four Requisites.”

Who acts: man · What happens: say, establish, be, come, see, furnish · To what, where: man, kingdom, you · 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), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Reverend	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Reverend	punct
6	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Reverend	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 established	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 established	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 established	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 established	aux:pass
12	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Reverend	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kingdom	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kingdom	nmod:poss
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 established	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Reverend	parataxis
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 good	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 furnish	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 furnish	nsubj
27	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 furnish	aux
28	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 furnish	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 Requisites	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Requisites	det
32	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 Requisites	nummod
33	Requisites	requisite	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 furnish	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 furnish	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 furnish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man				Reverend nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	establish in a quote	present · passive		man		my kingdom		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is in a quote	infinitive					enough, good property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	infinitive		man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	furnish in a quote	future	man		you		with the Four Requisites	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with requisite=Theme

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 31