The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 113
“For what purpose did you capture us?” inquired the first.
Who acts: you · What happens: capture, inquire · To what, where: us, first · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 capture | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 capture | obj |
| 4 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 capture | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 capture | nsubj |
| 7 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 capture | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 capture | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 capture | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 first | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 inquired | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture in a quote | past · do-support | you | us | what purpose obj | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary we=Theme | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the first | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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