The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 108
“Yes, your majesty,” said that man to that king.
What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 man | mark |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man to that king ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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