The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 69
Said they: “This king here, this betrayer of friends, has not the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues, this man who has granted him the boon of his own life!
Who acts: Warriors, king, man · What happens: say, have, grant, conceive · To what, where: slightest conception, boon, king, virtues · 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 (Warriors, king, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 5 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 king | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 betrayer | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 betrayer | det |
| 10 | betrayer | betrayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 betrayer | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 conception | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 conception | det |
| 17 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 conception | amod |
| 18 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 virtues | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 virtues | det |
| 21 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 conception | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 embodiment | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 embodiment | det |
| 24 | embodiment | embodiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 virtues | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 virtues | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 virtues | det |
| 27 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 embodiment | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 man | punct |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conception | appos |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 granted | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 granted | aux |
| 33 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 man | acl:relcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 granted | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 boon | det |
| 36 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 granted | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 life | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 life | amod |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 boon | nmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Warriors = warrior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | this king and this betrayer of friends | the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | present · perfect | this man | the boon of king's own life | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal boon=Theme | |||
| 4 | conceive in a quote | the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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