The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 155

Then Sakka said to him: “When, Reverend Sir, you need wood, just rub this hatchet with your hand and say: ‘Please fetch me wood and make me a fire.’

Who acts: Sakka, eldest · What happens: say, need, rub, fetch, make · To what, where: eldest, Reverend Sir, hatchet, wood, Sakka, fire · 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 (Sakka, eldest), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Sakka	Sakka	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Sir	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Sir	punct
8	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 Sir	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sir	punct
10	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sir	compound
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 need	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rub	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 rub	advmod
18	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 need	parataxis
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hatchet	det
20	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rub	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rub	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 say	cc
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 rub	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 fetch	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 fetch	punct
28	Please	please	INTJ	_	29 fetch	discourse
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 fetch	obj
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fetch	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 fetch	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 make	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fire	det
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sakka		eldest = eld	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	need in a quote	present	eldest = eld	Reverend Sir			wood obj	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme
3	rub in a quote	infinitive		this hatchet			with your hand	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hatchet=Destination with hand=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fetch in a quote	infinitive		wood	Sakka			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary wood=Theme
6	make in a quote	infinitive		a fire	Sakka			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary fire=Product

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 9, sentence 155

The tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 155