The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 130
When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘Not short,’ what he meant was: ‘Do not break with your friends quickly.’
Who acts: father · What happens: say, not be, ', mean, not break · To what, where: majesty, me · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 majesty | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 majesty | punct |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 majesty | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hour | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 short | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 short | punct |
| 18 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 short | advmod |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’ | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 short | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 meant | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meant | nsubj |
| 24 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ’ | ccomp |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 short | cop |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
| 28 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 break | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 break | advmod |
| 30 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 friends | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 friends | nmod:poss |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 break | obl |
| 34 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 break | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my father | your majesty | me | hour | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | not is | past | short property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ' | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | mean | past | father | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not break | infinitive · do-support | with your friends; quickly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with friend=Instrument |
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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