The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 88
Blind men and elephant Udāna, 66 79 _Avoid vain wrangling_
Who acts: Blind men · What happens: avoid, wrangle
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 (Blind men), 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 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Avoid | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 elephant | cc |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | conj |
| 5 | Udāna | Udāna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 _ | punct |
| 7 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 79 | compound |
| 8 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 _ | nummod |
| 9 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 10 | Avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wrangling | amod |
| 12 | wrangling | wrangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Avoid | advcl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrangling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | present | Blind men and elephant and 79 _ | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrangle | gerund | Blind men and elephant and 79 _ not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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