The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 8
But those who are endowed with morality, Those who delight in the tranquillity of wisdom, Those who abstain and refrain from worldly delights,--the wise,-- They attain what others attain not.
Who acts: Those, others · What happens: endow, delight, abstain, refrain, attain, not attain · To what, where: those, tranquillity, worldly delights
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 (Those, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 endowed | cc |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 endowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 endowed | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 endowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 morality | case |
| 7 | morality | morality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 endowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Those | punct |
| 9 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 endowed | obl:agent |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 delight | nsubj |
| 11 | delight | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Those | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tranquillity | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tranquillity | det |
| 14 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delight | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wisdom | case |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tranquillity | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Those | punct |
| 18 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Those | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 abstain | nsubj |
| 20 | abstain | abstain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 refrain | cc |
| 22 | refrain | refrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 abstain | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 delights | case |
| 24 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 delights | amod |
| 25 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 refrain | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Those | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 wise | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wise | det |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Those | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Those | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 attain | punct |
| 32 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 attain | nsubj |
| 33 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Those | conj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 attain | obj |
| 35 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 attain | nsubj |
| 36 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 attain | ccomp |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 attain | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | present · passive | Those Those | those | with morality; who nsubj | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination with morality=Theme | |||
| 2 | delight | present | the tranquillity of wisdom | who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | abstain | present | who nsubj | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | refrain | present | worldly delights | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from delight=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | attain | present | others = other | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not 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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