The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 60
“Your majesty, it was a young man, the pupil of such-and-such an elephant-trainer, who rose at night, at time of dawn, and sang and played the lute with charming voice in the elephant-stable.”
Who acts: majesty, such elephant trainer · What happens: be, rise, sing, play · To what, where: young man, lute, elephant stable
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, such elephant trainer), 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 | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 majesty | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pupil | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pupil | det |
| 12 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 trainer | mark |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trainer | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 trainer | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trainer | cc |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 trainer | det:predet |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trainer | det |
| 20 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trainer | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 elephant | punct |
| 22 | trainer | trainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pupil | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rose | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 rose | nsubj |
| 25 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 trainer | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 dawn | case |
| 32 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sang | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sang | cc |
| 35 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rose | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 played | cc |
| 37 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sang | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 lute | det |
| 39 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 played | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 voice | case |
| 41 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 voice | compound |
| 42 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lute | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 stable | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 stable | det |
| 45 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stable | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 elephant | punct |
| 47 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 played | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Your majesty | a young man and the pupil such such elephant trainer | the pupil such such elephant trainer conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise in a quote | past | such such elephant trainer | night; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | such such elephant trainer not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play in a quote | past | such such elephant trainer not said here | the lute | the elephant stable | with charming voice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lute=Theme with voice=Co-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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