The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 2
When the money they brought was gone, he went to the Future Buddha again and said: “Master, the money I got by selling you tusks turned out to be no more than enough to pay off my debts.
Who acts: they, money, man, Master, you · What happens: bring, be, go, say, get, sell · To what, where: money, Future Buddha, debts · 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: who acts (they, money, man, Master), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 money | det |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Buddha | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Buddha | det |
| 13 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Buddha | compound |
| 14 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Master | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Master | punct |
| 20 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 money | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 money | det |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Master | appos |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 money | acl:relcl |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 selling | mark |
| 27 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 got | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 turned | nsubj |
| 29 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 turned | nsubj |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 selling | ccomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 turned | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 more | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 more | cop |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 more | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 turned | obj |
| 36 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 39 pay | mark |
| 37 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 39 pay | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 pay | mark |
| 39 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 more | advcl |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 pay | compound:prt |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 debts | nmod:poss |
| 42 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pay | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | they | the money not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the money | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | the Future Buddha | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to buddha=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past | Master | the money not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sell in a quote | gerund | Master not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | turn out in a quote | past | you | tusks nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not is in a quote | to-infinitive | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | pay off in a quote | to-infinitive | my debts | enough property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
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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