The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 128
“When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘Not long,’ what he meant was: ‘Do not cherish hatred long.’
Who acts: father · What happens: say, not be, ', mean, not cherish, hatr · To what, where: majesty, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 When | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 When | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 majesty | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hour | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hour | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
| 19 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’ | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 meant | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meant | nsubj |
| 25 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ’ | ccomp |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | cop |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 cherish | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 cherish | punct |
| 29 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 cherish | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 cherish | advmod |
| 31 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 32 | hatred | hatr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 cherish | acl |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 hatred | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 cherish | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 cherish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my father | your majesty not said here | my father = father | hour | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | my father not said here | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ' in a quote | present | my father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | past | father | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not cherish in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | hatr in a quote | participle | long property | tree rules |
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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