--- title: Sakka gave him a bowl of curds, saying: “If you invert this and make… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Sakka gave him a bowl of curds, saying: “If you invert this and make a wish, the curds will turn into a mighty river, will set flowing a mighty flood, and will even be able to get and give you a kingdom.” Who acts: Sakka, you, curds. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/) / 7 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 7 Sakka gave him a bowl of curds, saying: “If you invert this and make a wish, the curds will turn into a mighty river, will set flowing a mighty flood, and will even be able to get and give you a kingdom.” **Who acts:** Sakka, you, curds · **What happens:** give, say, invert, make, turn, set · **To what, where:** bowl, Sir, this, wish, mighty river, mighty flood · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sakka, you, curds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:10:7 # text = Sakka gave him a bowl of curds, saying: “If you invert this and make a wish, the curds will turn into a mighty river, will set flowing a mighty flood, and will even be able to get and give you a kingdom.” 1 Sakka Sakka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 curds curd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 If if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 invert invert VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 curds curd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 32 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Sakka | a bowl of curds | Sir | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sakka *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **invert** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | you | this | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a wish | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product | | 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | future | the curds | | | a mighty river | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory | | 6 | **set** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **flow** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | a mighty flood | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flood=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | future | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a kingdom | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kingdom=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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/8/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/)