The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 142
“Reverend Sir!” replied those monks to the Exalted One.
What happens: reply, exalt · To what, where: Reverend, 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reverend | punct |
| 2 | Reverend | Reverend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Reverend | flat |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reverend | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reverend | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 monks | det |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 Exalted | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Exalted | det |
| 11 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | advcl |
| 12 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Exalted | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | Reverend | that monks obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exalt | participle | One | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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