The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 163
So saying, he gave him a thousand pieces of money and sent him on his way.
Who acts: Son · What happens: say, give, send · To what, where: thousand pieces, Teacher, Son, 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 (Son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pieces | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Son | a thousand pieces of money | Teacher | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | past | Son not said here | Son | Son's way | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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