The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
Hearing this, the ogre thought: “What this youth says is true, every word of it.
Who acts: ogre, youth · What happens: hear, think, say, be, word · To what, where: this, Youth · 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 (ogre, youth), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thought | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ogre | det |
| 5 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 says | obj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | csubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 true | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 word | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the ogre not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the ogre | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | this youth | What obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | every word of Youth conj; true property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | word in a quote | Youth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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