The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

The parrot also, at the mere word, came down from the top of the tree, and bowing to the Future Buddha, asked: “Tell me, Reverend Sir, shall I speak to my kinsfolk and have them fetch you self-sown rice from the region of Himavat?”

Who acts: parrot, I, words · What happens: come down, bow, ask, tell, speak, have · To what, where: top, me, words, self sown rice, you, region · 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 (parrot, I, words), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 parrot	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parrot	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 parrot	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bowing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bowing	cc
20	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 Buddha	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Buddha	det
23	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Buddha	compound
24	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 bowing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Tell	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Tell	punct
29	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 Tell	iobj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Sir	punct
32	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Sir	compound
33	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tell	vocative
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 speak	punct
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 speak	aux
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 speak	nsubj
37	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Tell	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 kinsfolk	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 kinsfolk	nmod:poss
40	kinsfolk	kinsfolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 speak	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 have	cc
42	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 Tell	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 have	obj
44	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 have	xcomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 fetch	obj
46	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rice	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 self	punct
48	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 rice	amod
49	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fetch	obj
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 region	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 region	det
52	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fetch	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 Himavat	case
54	Himavat	Himavat	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 region	nmod
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 Tell	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the parrot and the mere word			the top of the tree	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial_Location
2	bow	gerund	the parrot and the mere word not said here				to the Future Buddha	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to buddha=Pivot
3	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me		Reverend Sir vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	speak speech: other in a quote	shall	I				to my kinsfolk	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to kinsfolk=Co-Agent
6	have in a quote	present		words = word				tree rules
7	fetch in a quote	infinitive	words = word not said here	self sown rice	you	the region of Himavat		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary rice=Theme
8	sow in a quote	participle						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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 tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 44