The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 88

For example, if they captured father and son, they would say to the father: “Fetch us ransom-money first; then you may take your son and go.”

Who acts: Thieves, father · What happens: capture, say, fetch, take, go · To what, where: father, ransom money, us, son · 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 (Thieves, father), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 captured	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 captured	nsubj
6	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	advcl
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 captured	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 son	cc
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 captured	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Fetch	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Fetch	punct
19	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	conj
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Fetch	obj
21	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 money	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ransom	punct
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fetch	obj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 Fetch	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 take	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 take	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	parataxis
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	capture a condition, not said to happen	past	Thieves = thief	father and son				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	say speech: assert	would	Thieves = thief		the father		for example	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fetch in a quote	infinitive	Thieves = thief not said here	ransom money	us		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary money=Theme
4	take in a quote	may	the father = father		your son	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination
5	go in a quote	infinitive	the father = father not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 88