The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 183
An aged wise man inquired: “Why doth the company of angels rejoice?”
Who acts: aged wise man, angels · What happens: inquire, do, rejoice · To what, where: company · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aged wise man, angels), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 doth | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 doth | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 doth | advmod |
| 9 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inquired | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 company | det |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doth | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 angels | case |
| 13 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rejoice | nsubj |
| 14 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 company | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 doth | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 doth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | a aged wise man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the company | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rejoice in a quote | present | angels | the company not said here | tree rules |
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.
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