The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 114
“For ransom-money,” replied the second.
What happens: reply · To what, where: second
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: 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 3 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ransom | punct |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the second | for ransom money | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent second=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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