The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 133
Men versed in the Law who honor the aged Have praise even in this life And in the next life are in bliss.
Who acts: Men · What happens: verse, honor, be · To what, where: Men, Law, aged Have praise, life, bliss
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 (Men), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bliss | nsubj |
| 2 | versed | verse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Men | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Law | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Law | det |
| 5 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 versed | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 honor | nsubj |
| 7 | honor | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Men | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 praise | det |
| 9 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 praise | amod |
| 10 | Have | Have | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 praise | compound |
| 11 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 honor | obj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 life | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 life | det |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 honor | obl |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 life | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 life | amod |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bliss | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bliss | case |
| 23 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 bliss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | verse | participle | Men not said here | the Law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | honor | present | Men | the aged Have praise | this life and the next life | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | Men | bliss | tree rules |
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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