The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

Hearing this, wise men who stood by said: “But, monk, what is the trouble between you and our king? have you done him some good turn?”

Who acts: wise men, monk, you · What happens: hear, stand by, say, be, do · To what, where: this, trouble, good turn, man · 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 (wise men, monk, you), 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Hearing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearing	punct
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 men	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 stood	obl
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
12	But	but	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 monk	punct
14	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trouble	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 trouble	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 trouble	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trouble	det
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monk	conj
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 trouble	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 king	cc
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 king	nmod:poss
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 you	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 monk	punct
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	iobj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 turn	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 turn	amod
32	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	wise men not said here	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	stand by	past	wise men				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	wise men				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	monk and the trouble	the trouble		between you	tree rules
5	do in a quote	present · perfect	you	some good turn	man		tree rules

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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 64