The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 20

The Teacher drew near and inquired: “Monks, what is the subject that engages your attention as you sit here all gathered together?”

Who acts: Teacher, Monks, subject, you, your · What happens: draw, inquire, be, engage, sit, gather · To what, where: Monks, subject, attention · 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 (Teacher, Monks, subject, you), 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 Teacher	det
2	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 inquired	cc
6	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Monks	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Monks	punct
9	Monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 inquired	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 subject	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 subject	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 subject	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 subject	det
14	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Monks	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 engages	nsubj
16	engages	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 subject	acl:relcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 attention	nmod:poss
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 engages	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 sit	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
21	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 engages	advcl
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sit	advmod
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 gathered	advmod
24	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sit	advcl
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 gathered	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the Teacher			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	inquire speech: other	past	the Teacher not said here	Monks			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Monks	the subject			tree rules
4	engage in a quote	present	the subject	your attention			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
5	sit in a quote	present	you		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	gather in a quote	participle	you not said here			all, together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	attend in a quote		your				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 20