The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 63
“Was it you, young man, who rose at night, at time of dawn, and sang and played the lute with charming voice in the elephant-stable?”
Who acts: majesty, young man · What happens: be, rise, sing, play · To what, where: you, 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, young man), 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 | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 you | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dawn | case |
| 17 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sang | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sang | cc |
| 20 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rose | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 played | cc |
| 22 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sang | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lute | det |
| 24 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 played | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 voice | case |
| 26 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 voice | compound |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lute | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 stable | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 stable | det |
| 30 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stable | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 elephant | punct |
| 32 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 played | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | majesty | you | young man appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise in a quote | past | young man | night; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | young man not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play in a quote | past | young man 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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