--- title: And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and dr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and drink my blood before it sinks into the ground, and satisfy your hunger with my flesh, and let your mate eat what is left.” Who acts: lion, wise boar, blood, mate. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/9/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/) / 9 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 9 And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and drink my blood before it sinks into the ground, and satisfy your hunger with my flesh, and let your mate eat what is left.” **Who acts:** lion, wise boar, blood, mate, your · **What happens:** eat, say, be, drink, sink, satisfy · **To what, where:** lion, blood, ground, hunger · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, wise boar, blood, mate), 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:pg74064:16:9 # text = And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and drink my blood before it sinks into the ground, and satisfy your hunger with my flesh, and let your mate eat what is left.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | lion | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wise boar | | lion | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my blood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 5 | **sink** *in a quote* | present | blood | | | the ground | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **satisfy** *in a quote* | infinitive | the wise boar *not said here* | your hunger | | | | with my flesh | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with flesh=Instrument | | 7 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | your mate | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · passive | | | | | | what *nsubj:pass* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 10 | **hunger** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/)