The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 43
Said the Great Being: “Do not worry, tiny quail; I will protect your little ones.”
Who acts: I · What happens: say, not worry, protect · To what, where: tiny quail, little ones · 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 (I), 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Great | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Said | xcomp |
| 4 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Great | advcl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 worry | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 worry | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 worry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 worry | advmod |
| 9 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quail | punct |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quail | amod |
| 12 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worry | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 protect | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 protect | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 protect | aux |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 protect | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 protect | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | great property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not worry in a quote | infinitive · do-support | tiny quail | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | protect in a quote | future | I | your little ones | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |
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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