The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 105

Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present state of existence has this girl, with the thought in her mind, ‘I’ll kill flies!’ caused the death of her mother; in a previous state of existence also she caused the death of her mother in the very same way.”

Who acts: Teacher, householder, Girl, mother · What happens: say, have, kill, cause, mind, die · To what, where: girl, flies, death, previous state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, householder, Girl, mother), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 householder	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 householder	punct
6	Verily	verily	ADV	_	8 householder	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Verily	punct
8	householder	householder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 state	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 state	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 state	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 state	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 state	nmod:poss
14	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 state	amod
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 householder	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 existence	case
17	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 state	nmod
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 thought	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thought	det
24	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 girl	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mind	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mind	nmod:poss
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 kill	nsubj
31	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 has	conj
33	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kill	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
36	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 death	det
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 caused	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 mother	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mother	nmod:poss
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 death	nmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 caused	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 state	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 state	det
45	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 state	amod
46	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 caused	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 existence	case
48	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 state	nmod
49	also	also	ADV	_	51 caused	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 caused	nsubj
51	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 death	det
53	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 caused	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 mother	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 mother	nmod:poss
56	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 death	nmod
57	in	in	ADP	_	61 way	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 way	det
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 same	advmod
60	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 way	amod
61	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 caused	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the Teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	householder	this girl and the thought in householder's mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	kill in a quote	future	the Teacher = teacher	flies			tree rules
4	cause in a quote	past	the Teacher = teacher not said here	the death of householder's mother			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
5	cause in a quote	past	Girl	the death of Girl's mother	a previous state of existence	in the same way	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
6	mind in a quote		householder				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7	die in a quote		householder's mother				nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent
8	die in a quote		Girl's mother				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 105