The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 134

When the Teacher had thus extolled the practice of honoring the oldest, he joined the connection and identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the elephant was one of my disciples, the monkey was another, but the wise partridge was I myself.”

Who acts: Teacher, practice, Birth story, elephant, wise partridge · What happens: extol, honor, join, identify, follow, be · To what, where: practice, oldest, connection, personages, Birth story, one

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 (Teacher, practice, Birth story, elephant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 extolled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 extolled	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 extolled	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 extolled	advmod
6	extolled	extol	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 joined	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 practice	det
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 extolled	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 honoring	mark
10	honoring	honor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 practice	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oldest	det
12	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 honoring	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 extolled	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 joined	nsubj
15	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 connection	det
17	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joined	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 identified	cc
19	identified	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 joined	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 personages	det
21	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 identified	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 story	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
24	Birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Birth	punct
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 identified	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 follows	mark
28	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 story	acl:relcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 another	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 another	punct
31	At	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 another	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 elephant	det
35	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 one	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 one	cop
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 time	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 disciples	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 disciples	nmod:poss
40	disciples	disciple	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 time	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 monkey	det
43	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 another	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 another	cop
45	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 joined	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 myself	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 myself	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 partridge	det
49	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 partridge	amod
50	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 myself	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 myself	cop
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 myself	nsubj
53	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 another	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	extol	past · perfect	the Teacher	the practice		thus property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
2	honor	gerund	the practice not said here	the oldest			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Theme
3	join	past	Teacher	the connection			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient
4	identify	past	Teacher not said here	the personages	the Birth story		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme
5	follow	present	the Birth story not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	past	the elephant	one		of my disciples	tree rules
7	is a in a quote	past	the wise partridge	the prerogative = prerogative		I nsubj	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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 134

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 134