The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 111
Said the charioteer of the King of Benāres: “Master charioteer, get your chariot out of the way!
Who acts: charioteer, Master charioteer · What happens: say, get · To what, where: chariot, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charioteer, Master charioteer), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 charioteer | det |
| 3 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 charioteer | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Benāres | case |
| 8 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 charioteer | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 charioteer | punct |
| 11 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charioteer | compound |
| 12 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 charioteer | acl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the charioteer of the King of Benāres | Master charioteer ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | Master charioteer not said here | your chariot | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus |
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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