The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 141
Having thus addressed him, the older ascetic comforted him, saying: “Henceforth grieve not;” and went back again to his own hermitage.
Who acts: Having, older ascetic · What happens: have, address, comfort, say, not grieve, go back · To what, where: Brahman · 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 (Having, older 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 addressed | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comforted | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetic | det |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ascetic | amod |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comforted | nsubj |
| 9 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 addressed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 comforted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 comforted | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 grieve | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grieve | punct |
| 15 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 16 grieve | advmod |
| 16 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 grieve | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 grieve | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grieve | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 addressed | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 hermitage | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hermitage | amod |
| 27 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | address | past | Having | Brahman | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | comfort | past | the older ascetic | Brahman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the older ascetic not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not grieve in a quote | infinitive | henceforth property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | go back | past | Having not said here | again | to Brahman's own hermitage result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hermitage=Result |
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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