The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 235
He taught men to love all living creatures without respect of kind or person.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: teach, love, live, respect · To what, where: men, living creatures, kind
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taught | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 love | mark |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 taught | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 creatures | det |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 love | obj |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 respect | case |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kind | case |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 respect | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 person | cc |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Buddha | men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | all living creatures | without respect of kind or person | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | respect | kind or person | nom respect «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.
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