The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 115
There a certain householder invited the Teacher, provided seats in his garden, gave alms to the Congregation of Monks presided over by the Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sirs, walk about in this garden according to your pleasure.”
Who acts: certain householder, Reverend Sirs, your · What happens: invite, provide, give, preside over, say, walk · To what, where: Teacher, seats, garden, alms, Congregation, Monks · 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 (certain householder, Reverend Sirs, your), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 invited | expl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 householder | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 householder | amod |
| 4 | householder | householder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | nsubj |
| 5 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 invited | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 provided | punct |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | conj |
| 10 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 provided | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 garden | nmod:poss |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | conj |
| 16 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Congregation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Congregation | det |
| 19 | Congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Monks | case |
| 21 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Congregation | nmod |
| 22 | presided | preside | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Monks | acl |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 presided | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Buddha | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Buddha | det |
| 26 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 presided | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Sirs | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Sirs | punct |
| 32 | Reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Sirs | compound |
| 33 | Sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 walk | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 walk | punct |
| 35 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 walk | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 garden | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 garden | det |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walk | obl |
| 40 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 pleasure | case |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 according | fixed |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 43 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walk | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | a certain householder | the Teacher | there | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 2 | provide | past | a certain householder not said here | seats | Teacher's garden | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition seat=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | a certain householder not said here | alms | the Congregation of Monks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to congregation=Recipient | |||
| 4 | preside over | participle | Monks not said here | by the Buddha; over property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by buddha=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a certain householder not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | walk in a quote | infinitive | Reverend Sirs | this garden | accord your pleasure; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | please in a quote | your | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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