The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 233
In the second place, he taught that a man must love his neighbor as himself, returning good for evil and love for hatred.
Who acts: Buddha, man · What happens: teach, love, return · To what, where: second place, neighbor · 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 (Buddha, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 love | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taught | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 love | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returning | punct |
| 18 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 love | conj |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 returning | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 evil | case |
| 21 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returning | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 love | cc |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 evil | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hatred | case |
| 25 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returning | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Buddha | the second place | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | love | must | a man | Buddha's neighbor | as Buddha | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbor=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | return | gerund | a man not said here | for evil and love; for hatred; good property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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