The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 117
The second pack released the first, captured the Brahman, and said to him: “Give us wealth too.”
Who acts: second pack · What happens: release, capture, say, give · To what, where: first, Brahman, wealth, us · 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 (second pack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pack | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 pack | amod |
| 3 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 released | nsubj |
| 4 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 released | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 captured | punct |
| 8 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 released | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brahman | det |
| 10 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 captured | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 released | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Give | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Give | punct |
| 18 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Give | iobj |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Give | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 Give | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past | the second pack | the first | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 2 | capture | past | the second pack not said here | the Brahman | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second pack not said here | Brahman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | wealth | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient wealth=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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