---
title: As he stood aside, the younger ascetic said this to Jewel-neck the d… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: As he stood aside, the younger ascetic said this to Jewel-neck the dragon-king: “Give me the jewel! Who acts: Neck, younger ascetic. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/69/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/) / 69

# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 69

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As he stood aside, the younger ascetic said this to Jewel-neck the dragon-king: “Give me the jewel!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Neck, younger ascetic · **What happens:** stand, say, give · **To what, where:** this, Jewel neck, jewel, younger ascetic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neck, younger ascetic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:11:75
# text = As he stood aside, the younger ascetic said this to Jewel-neck the dragon-king: “Give me the jewel!
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Neck |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the younger ascetic | this | Jewel neck |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to neck=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the younger ascetic *not said here* | the jewel | the younger ascetic *= ascetic* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jewel=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/68/)
- next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/70/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/)