--- title: Said they: “This king here, this betrayer of friends, has not the sl… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Said they: “This king here, this betrayer of friends, has not the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues, this man who has granted him the boon of his own life! Who acts: Warriors, king, man. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/69/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/) / 69 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 69 Said they: “This king here, this betrayer of friends, has not the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues, this man who has granted him the boon of his own life! **Who acts:** Warriors, king, man · **What happens:** say, have, grant, conceive · **To what, where:** slightest conception, boon, king, virtues · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Warriors, king, man), 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:pg74064:4:73 # text = Said they: “This king here, this betrayer of friends, has not the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues, this man who has granted him the boon of his own life! 1 Said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 4 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 betrayer betrayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 slightest slight ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 conception conception NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 virtues virtue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 embodiment embodiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 virtues virtue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 granted grant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 boon boon NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Warriors *= warrior* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | this king and this betrayer of friends | the slightest conception of the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient | | 3 | **grant** *in a quote* | present · perfect | this man | the boon of king's own life | king | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal boon=Theme | | 4 | **conceive** *in a quote* | | | the virtues of this embodiment of the virtues | | | | | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/)