The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 78
The frog also, hearing her words, assented, saying, “Very well.”
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: hear, assent, say, word · To what, where: words, frog · 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 (Elephant), 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 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 frog | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 frog | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assented | punct |
| 9 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 words | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hearing | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Very | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Very | punct |
| 14 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 11 saying | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 Very | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 frog | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 frog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Elephant's words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | assent | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | Elephant | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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