The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 22
“Monks,” said the Teacher, “if that monk had cultivated friendship for the four royal families of snakes, the snake would not have bitten him.
Who acts: Monks · What happens: say, cultivate, not bite · To what, where: monk, snake · 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 (Monks), 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 Monks | punct |
| 2 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monks | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monks | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Teacher | det |
| 7 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bitten | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bitten | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 cultivated | mark |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 monk | det |
| 12 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cultivated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cultivated | aux |
| 14 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bitten | advcl |
| 15 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cultivated | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 families | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 families | det |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 families | nummod |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 families | amod |
| 20 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cultivated | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 snakes | case |
| 22 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 families | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cultivated | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snake | det |
| 25 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bitten | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 bitten | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bitten | aux |
| 29 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bitten | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Monks | the Teacher nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cultivate a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | that monk | for the four royal families of snakes; friendship obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary friendship=Product | ||||
| 3 | not bite in a quote | would · perfect · passive | the snake | monk obj | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result |
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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