The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 254
We may therefore feel quite certain that such remarkable parables as _Brahmadatta and the prince_ (6), _Blind men and elephant_ (13), and _The birds_ (16) were actually related by Gotama himself, in substantially the same form as that in which we now have them.
Who acts: We, Gotama · What happens: feel, relate, have · To what, where: such remarkable parables, PARABLES, same form
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 (We, Gotama), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 certain | advmod |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 related | mark |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parables | amod |
| 9 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parables | amod |
| 10 | parables | parable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 related | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Brahmadatta | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brahmadatta | punct |
| 13 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 parables | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prince | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brahmadatta | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 6 | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 6 | punct |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 parables | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 6 | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 men | punct |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 men | punct |
| 23 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 parables | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 elephant | cc |
| 26 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parables | conj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 13 | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 13 | punct |
| 29 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 parables | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 13 | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 birds | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 birds | cc |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 birds | punct |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 birds | det |
| 35 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 parables | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 parables | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 16 | punct |
| 38 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 parables | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 16 | punct |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 related | aux:pass |
| 41 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 42 related | advmod |
| 42 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 certain | advcl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 Gotama | case |
| 44 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 related | obl |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 related | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 form | punct |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 form | case |
| 48 | substantially | substantially | ADV | _ | 51 form | advmod |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 form | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 form | amod |
| 51 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 52 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 that | case |
| 53 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 form | nmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 which | case |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 have | nmod |
| 56 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 have | nsubj |
| 57 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 58 have | advmod |
| 58 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 form | parataxis |
| 59 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 have | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | may | We | the same form as that parataxis; certain, therefore property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | relate | past · passive | Gotama | such remarkable parables as Brahmadatta and the prince and Blind men and elephant and the birds | Gotama obl; actually property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | we | PARABLES = parable | the same form as that | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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