The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 127
And those three animals, established in the Precepts, showed respect and deference for each other, and had a common life.
Who acts: three animals · What happens: establish, show, have · To what, where: three animals, Precepts, respect, common life
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 (three animals), 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 | _ | 11 showed | cc |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 animals | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 animals | nummod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 established | punct |
| 6 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 animals | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Precepts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Precepts | det |
| 9 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 established | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 animals | punct |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 deference | cc |
| 14 | deference | deference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 respect | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 showed | obl |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 showed | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 22 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | participle | that three animals not said here | the Precepts | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | show | past | that three animals | respect and deference | for each | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | that three animals not said here | a common life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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