The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 106
They all assented, saying, “Very well!”
What happens: assent, say · To what, where: Quail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assented | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 assented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 assented | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 8 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | participle · passive | Quail | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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