The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 7
Those who have not attained consciousness of their portion, Those who follow the voice of others, Those who are given to heedlessness,--the foolish,-- They attain what others attain.
Who acts: animals, others · What happens: not attain, follow, give, attain · To what, where: attained consciousness, voice, heedlessness
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 (animals, others), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 consciousness | det |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 attained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attained | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 attained | advmod |
| 5 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 consciousness | amod |
| 6 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 portion | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 portion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consciousness | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Those | punct |
| 11 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 Those | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 follow | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 voice | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Those | punct |
| 19 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 consciousness | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 given | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Those | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heedlessness | case |
| 24 | heedlessness | heedlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 foolish | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 foolish | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 foolish | det |
| 28 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Those | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 attain | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 attain | punct |
| 31 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 attain | nsubj |
| 32 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 foolish | conj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 attain | obj |
| 34 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 attain | nsubj |
| 35 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 attain | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consciousness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attain | present · perfect · passive | that attained consciousness of animals's portion Those Those | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | present | the voice of others | who nsubj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | present · passive | heedlessness | who nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to heedlessness=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | attain | present | animals = animal | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | attain | present | others | what obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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