The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 97
On a certain occasion the Teacher admonished a company of monks to show proper respect for their elders.
Who acts: Teacher · What happens: admonish, show · To what, where: company, proper respect
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasion | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 occasion | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occasion | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admonished | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Teacher | det |
| 6 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 admonished | nsubj |
| 7 | admonished | admonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 company | det |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admonished | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 monks | case |
| 11 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 company | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admonished | advcl |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 respect | amod |
| 15 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 show | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 elders | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 elders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 respect | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 admonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admonish | past | the Teacher | a company of monks | on a certain occasion | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent company=Recipient on occasion=Topic | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the Teacher not said here | proper respect | for Partridge's elders | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
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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