The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 65
“Very well, young man, sing and play the lute for me.”
Who acts: young man · What happens: sing, play · To what, where: lute
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 (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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 young | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 play | cc |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sing | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lute | det |
| 12 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 play | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | infinitive | young man | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | young man not said here | the lute | for that men = man | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent lute=Theme for i=Eventuality |
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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