--- title: “Your majesty, it was a young man, the pupil of such-and-such an ele… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: “Your majesty, it was a young man, the pupil of such-and-such an elephant-trainer, who rose at night, at time of dawn, and sang and played the lute with charming voice in the elephant-stable.” Who acts: majesty, such elephant trainer. 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/pg74064/6/60/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/) / 60 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 60 “Your majesty, it was a young man, the pupil of such-and-such an elephant-trainer, who rose at night, at time of dawn, and sang and played the lute with charming voice in the elephant-stable.” **Who acts:** majesty, such elephant trainer · **What happens:** be, rise, sing, play · **To what, where:** young man, lute, elephant stable This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, such elephant trainer), 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:pg74064:6:60 # text = “Your majesty, it was a young man, the pupil of such-and-such an elephant-trainer, who rose at night, at time of dawn, and sang and played the lute with charming voice in the elephant-stable.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 22 det:predet _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 trainer trainer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 lute lute NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Your majesty | a young man and the pupil such such elephant trainer | | | | the pupil such such elephant trainer *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise** *in a quote* | past | such such elephant trainer | | | | night; time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | such such elephant trainer *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | past | such such elephant trainer *not said here* | the lute | | the elephant stable | | with charming voice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lute=Theme with voice=Co-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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)