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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 121

And having approached, he said this to that king: “Your majesty, those blind men have felt of the elephant; do as you think fit.”

Who acts: Elephant, blind men, you · What happens: have, approach, say, feel, do, think · To what, where: this, majesty, fit · 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: who acts (Elephant, blind men, you), 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

ccadvclxcomppunctnsubjobjcasedetoblpunctpunctnmod:possparataxispunctdetamodnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccompmarknsubjadvclobjpunctpunctrootAndCCONJhavingVERBapproachedVERB,PUNCThePRONsaidVERBthisPRONtoADPthatDETkingNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTYourPRONmajestyNOUN,PUNCTthoseDETblindADJmenNOUNhaveAUXfeltVERBofADPtheDETelephantNOUN;PUNCTdoVERBasSCONJyouPRONthinkVERBfitNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_6 saidcc
2havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 saidadvcl
3approachedapproachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 havingxcomp
4,,PUNCT_2 havingpunct
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 saidnsubj
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 saidobj
8totoADP_10 kingcase
9thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 kingdet
10kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidobl
11::PUNCT_14 majestypunct
12“"PUNCT_14 majestypunct
13YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 majestynmod:poss
14majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidparataxis
15,,PUNCT_20 feltpunct
16thosethatDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem18 mendet
17blindblindADJDegree=Pos18 menamod
18menmanNOUNNumber=Plur20 feltnsubj
19havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 feltaux
20feltfeelVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part14 majestyacl:relcl
21ofofADP_23 elephantcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 elephantdet
23elephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing20 feltobl
24;;PUNCT_25 dopunct
25dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
26asasSCONJ_28 thinkmark
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 thinknsubj
28thinkthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 doadvcl
29fitfitNOUNNumber=Sing28 thinkobj
30..PUNCT_25 dopunct
31”"PUNCT_25 dopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havegerundElephant not said heretree rules
2approachparticipleElephant not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertpastElephantthisto that king; Your majesty parataxistree rules
4feel in a quotepresent · perfectthat blind menYour majesty not said hereof the elephantvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme
5do in a quoteinfinitivevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6think speech: other in a quotepresentyoufitvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fit=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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