The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 105
And to them occurred the following thought: “It is not proper for us to live thus.
Who acts: thought, us · What happens: occur, follow, not be, live · To what, where: following thought, Partridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, us), 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 | _ | 4 occurred | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | obl |
| 4 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thought | amod |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 occurred | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 proper | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 proper | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 proper | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proper | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 proper | advmod |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occurred | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 live | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proper | advcl |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 live | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | the following thought | Partridge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | thought | proper property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | us | thus property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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