The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 37

At the mere word the snake came out, bowed to the Future Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sir, in this place are forty crores of gold; carry them all out and take them with you!”

Who acts: snake, Reverend Sir · What happens: come out, bow, say, be, carry, take · To what, where: mere word, forty crores, snake · 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 (snake, Reverend Sir), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 word	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	compound
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bowed	punct
10	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Buddha	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Buddha	det
13	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Buddha	compound
14	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bowed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Sir	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Sir	punct
20	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Sir	compound
21	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 crores	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 place	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Sir	appos
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crores	cop
27	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 crores	nummod
28	crores	crore	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crores	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 carry	punct
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obj
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 out	advmod
35	out	out	ADV	_	32 carry	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 take	cc
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 carry	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 take	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 carry	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the snake		the mere word	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	bow	participle	the snake not said here			to the Future Buddha	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to buddha=Pivot
3	say speech: express	past	the snake not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	Reverend Sir	forty crores		of gold	tree rules
5	carry in a quote	infinitive	the snake not said here	snake		out property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	take in a quote	infinitive	the snake not said here	snake		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 37