The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 153
Assuredly, monks, that monk had not suffused the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts.
What happens: not suffuse · To what, where: monk
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: 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 | Assuredly | assuredly | ADV | _ | 3 monks | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assuredly | punct |
| 3 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 suffused | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 monks | punct |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 monk | det |
| 6 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suffused | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 suffused | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 suffused | advmod |
| 9 | suffused | suffuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 families | det |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 families | nummod |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 families | amod |
| 13 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 suffused | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 snakes | case |
| 15 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 families | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thoughts | case |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thoughts | amod |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 snakes | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 suffused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suffuse | past · perfect · passive | that monk | monks obl; the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts obj | 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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