The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 131
This, your majesty, is what my father meant when he said to me in the hour of death: ‘Not short.’
Who acts: majesty, father · What happens: be, mean, say · To what, where: 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 (majesty, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 majesty | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 majesty | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meant | nsubj |
| 10 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 said | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meant | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hour | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hour | det |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hour | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 short | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 short | punct |
| 23 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 short | advmod |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 what | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 short | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your majesty | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | my father | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | father | me | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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