The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 37
Having thus set forth Cultivation of Friendship in the usual form, he next set it forth by way of prayer, reciting this stanza:
Who acts: friendship · What happens: have, set, recite · To what, where: Cultivation, usual form, form, stanza
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 (friendship), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 set | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 Cultivation | advmod |
| 5 | Cultivation | Cultivation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Friendship | case |
| 7 | Friendship | Friendship | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cultivation | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 form | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 form | amod |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 14 | next | next | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prayer | case |
| 21 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reciting | punct |
| 23 | reciting | recite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 set | advcl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stanza | det |
| 25 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reciting | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | friendship not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | participle | friendship not said here | Cultivation of Friendship | the usual form | thus property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in form=Destination | ||
| 3 | set | past | friendship | form | by way of prayer; forth, next property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by way=Destination | |||
| 4 | recite | gerund | friendship not said here | this stanza | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=Theme |
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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