The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 129
The taking upon themselves by these three animals of the Precepts was called the Holy Life of the Partridge.
Who acts: three animals · What happens: call, take · To what, where: taking · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 taking | det |
| 2 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 themselves | case |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 taking | nmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 animals | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 animals | nummod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taking | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Precepts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Precepts | det |
| 11 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Life | det |
| 15 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 16 Life | compound |
| 16 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Partridge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Partridge | det |
| 19 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Life | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the taking upon Precepts by this three animals of the Precepts | the Holy Life of the Partridge xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | this three animals of the Precepts | upon Precepts = precept | nom taking «act transitive»: upon=obl by=agent |
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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