The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 103
On a certain occasion the Teacher, referring to the self-mortification of the Hindu ascetics, said to the monks: “Monks, there is no value, no merit, in their self-mortification.
Who acts: certain occasion, Monks, value · What happens: refer, say, be, mortify · To what, where: monks, certain occasion, Hindu ascetics · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain occasion, Monks, value), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasion | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 occasion | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occasion | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Teacher | det |
| 6 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occasion | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 referring | punct |
| 8 | referring | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 occasion | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mortification | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mortification | det |
| 11 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mortification | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 self | punct |
| 13 | mortification | mortification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 referring | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ascetics | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ascetics | det |
| 16 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ascetics | amod |
| 17 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mortification | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 occasion | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 monks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monks | det |
| 22 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Monks | punct |
| 25 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 is | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Monks | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 value | det |
| 30 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 merit | punct |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 merit | det |
| 33 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 value | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mortification | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 mortification | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 mortification | nmod:poss |
| 37 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mortification | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 self | punct |
| 39 | mortification | mortification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 value | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | gerund | a certain occasion not said here | to the self mortification of the Hindu ascetics | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to mortification=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the monks | a certain occasion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monk=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | Monks | there | no value and no merit and value's self mortification nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | mortify | the Hindu ascetics | nom mortification «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mortify in a quote | value | nom mortification «feeling transitive»: poss=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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