The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
Then he entered Benāres, went to the elephant-stable adjoining the royal palace, and said this to the elephant-trainer: “Trainer, I wish to learn your art.”
Who acts: Prince, men · What happens: enter, go, adjoin, say, wish, learn · To what, where: Benāres, stable royal palace, this, elephant trainer, art · 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 (Prince, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 9 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stable | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 elephant | punct |
| 11 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 12 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 palace | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 said | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 trainer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trainer | det |
| 22 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trainer | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 elephant | punct |
| 24 | trainer | trainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Trainer | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Trainer | punct |
| 27 | Trainer | trainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trainer | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wish | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 wish | nsubj |
| 30 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 learn | mark |
| 32 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wish | xcomp |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 art | nmod:poss |
| 34 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 learn | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Prince | Benāres | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | Prince not said here | the stable royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | adjoin | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | this | the elephant trainer and Trainer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to trainer=Recipient | |||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | that men = man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | learn not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | that men = man not said here | your art | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic |
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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