The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 255
It is not at all unlikely that such a parable as _Brahmadatta and Mallika_ (8) was also related by Gotama, but of this we cannot be certain.
Who acts: parable, we · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: all
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 (parable, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unlikely | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unlikely | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 unlikely | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 unlikely | obl |
| 6 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 related | mark |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 parable | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parable | det |
| 10 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 related | nsubj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Brahmadatta | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 as | punct |
| 13 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 parable | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mallika | cc |
| 15 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brahmadatta | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 8 | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 8 | punct |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 parable | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 8 | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 related | cop |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 related | advmod |
| 22 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 unlikely | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Gotama | case |
| 24 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 related | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 certain | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 certain | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 this | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 certain | obl |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 certain | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 certain | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 certain | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 certain | cop |
| 33 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 unlikely | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlikely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | all | unlikely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | such parable as Brahmadatta and Mallika | by Gotama; related property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | can | we | of this; certain property | 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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