The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
The snake came, bowed to him, and said: “Here’s your money, master; take it.”
Who acts: snake · What happens: come, bow, say, be, take · To what, where: Buddha, master · 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), 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 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Here | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Here | punct |
| 13 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Here | cop |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 money | nmod:poss |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 master | punct |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 money | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the snake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bow | past | the snake not said here | Buddha | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | your money and master ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | master | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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