The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 126
From that time forth the partridge gave them admonition, established them in the Precepts, and himself also took upon himself the Precepts.
Who acts: partridge, Monkey · What happens: give, establish, take · To what, where: admonition, Precepts
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 (partridge, Monkey), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 partridge | det |
| 6 | partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 established | punct |
| 11 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 established | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Precepts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Precepts | det |
| 15 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 established | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 took | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Precepts | det |
| 24 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the partridge | admonition | admonition | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient admonition=Theme | ||
| 2 | establish | past | the partridge not said here | admonition | the Precepts | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | Monkey | the Precepts | upon Monkey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument precept=Destination |
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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