The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 137
“This ascetic cannot get along without the dragon-king,” concluded the older ascetic, and recited the third stanza:
Who acts: ascetic · What happens: not get along, conclude, recite · To what, where: older ascetic, third stanza · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ascetic), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ascetic | det |
| 3 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 concluded | ccomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragon | punct |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ascetic | det |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 ascetic | amod |
| 18 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 concluded | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 recited | cc |
| 21 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 concluded | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stanza | det |
| 23 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 stanza | amod |
| 24 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recited | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get along in a quote | can | this ascetic | without the dragon king; along property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | conclude | past | the older ascetic | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | recite | past | the third stanza | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=Theme |
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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