The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 142
Said the Teacher: “Thus, monks, even to dragons, though the World of Dragons wherein they dwell is filled to overflowing with the Seven Jewels, begging is offensive.
Who acts: Teacher, Dragon, begging · What happens: say, dwell, fill, overflow, be · To what, where: World · 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 (Teacher, Dragon, begging), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 monks | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 monks | punct |
| 6 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 monks | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thus | punct |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragons | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 dragons | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 dragons | case |
| 12 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 monks | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 filled | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 World | det |
| 16 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Dragons | case |
| 18 | Dragons | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 World | nmod |
| 19 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 dwell | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dwell | nsubj |
| 21 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 World | acl:relcl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 filled | aux:pass |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 monks | acl |
| 24 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 overflowing | mark |
| 25 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 filled | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Jewels | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Jewels | det |
| 28 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Jewels | compound |
| 29 | Jewels | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 overflowing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 offensive | punct |
| 31 | begging | begging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 offensive | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 offensive | cop |
| 33 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 monks | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Teacher | monks and dragons ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | present | Dragon | wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill in a quote | present · passive | the World of Dragons | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | overflow in a quote | gerund | with the Seven Jewels | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | begging | offensive 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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