The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 144
And having completed this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the younger brother was my favorite disciple, but the older brother was I myself.”
Who acts: World, Birth story, younger brother, older brother · What happens: complete, identify, follow, be · To what, where: parable, personages, Birth story, favorite disciple, Teacher · 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 (World, Birth story, younger brother, older brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 completed | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 completed | aux |
| 3 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 parable | det |
| 5 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 identified | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 identified | nsubj |
| 8 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 completed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 personages | det |
| 10 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 identified | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 13 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Birth | punct |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 identified | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 follows | mark |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 story | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 disciple | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 disciple | punct |
| 20 | At | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disciple | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brother | det |
| 24 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 brother | amod |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disciple | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 disciple | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 28 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 disciple | amod |
| 29 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completed | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 myself | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 myself | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 brother | det |
| 33 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 brother | amod |
| 34 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 myself | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 myself | cop |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 myself | nsubj |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 disciple | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 disciple | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | gerund · perfect | this parable | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | identify | past | World | the personages | the Birth story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the younger brother | my favorite disciple | time | my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | the older brother | the Teacher = teacher | I nsubj | 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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