The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 106
Having related this parable, he joined the connection and identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time that very mother was the mother, that very daughter was the daughter, but the wealthy merchant was I myself.”
Who acts: Parable, Birth story, time, daughter, wealthy merchant · What happens: have, relate, join, identify, follow, be · To what, where: parable, connection, personages, Birth story, mother, daughter
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 (Parable, Birth story, time, daughter), 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 | 7 joined | advcl |
| 2 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 parable | det |
| 4 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 related | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 joined | nsubj |
| 7 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 connection | det |
| 9 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 identified | cc |
| 11 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 joined | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 personages | det |
| 13 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 identified | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 16 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 story | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Birth | punct |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 identified | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 follows | mark |
| 20 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 story | acl:relcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 “ | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 joined | punct |
| 23 | At | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 “ | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 mother | nsubj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 mother | advmod |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mother | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mother | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mother | det |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 daughter | punct |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 daughter | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 daughter | advmod |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 daughter | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 daughter | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 daughter | det |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mother | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 myself | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 myself | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 merchant | det |
| 42 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 merchant | amod |
| 43 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 myself | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 myself | cop |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 myself | nsubj |
| 46 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 daughter | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 daughter | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Parable not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | relate | participle | Parable not said here | this parable | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | past | Parable | the connection | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient | ||||
| 4 | identify | past | Parable not said here | the personages | the Birth story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | |||
| 5 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | that time | the mother | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | past | that daughter | the daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | past | the wealthy merchant | the Teacher = teacher | I nsubj | tree rules |
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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