The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 131
Why is it that you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, do not live in respect and deference for each other?”
Who acts: taking · What happens: be, retire, teach, not live · To what, where: world, respect
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 (taking), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 you | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 retired | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 retired | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 retired | aux |
| 9 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 you | parataxis |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retired | obl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 Doctrine | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Doctrine | det |
| 15 | Doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retired | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Discipline | cc |
| 17 | Discipline | discipline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Doctrine | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 taught | advmod |
| 20 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 live | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taught | punct |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 live | advmod |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 retired | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 respect | case |
| 26 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deference | cc |
| 28 | deference | deference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 respect | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 each | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 respect | nmod |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 each | fixed |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 live | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | taking | that you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retire | present · perfect | the world | under a Doctrine and Discipline; who nsubj | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | participle | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not live | infinitive · do-support | respect for each and deference | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in respect=Location |
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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