The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 123
The monks approached the Teacher and reported that matter to him.
Who acts: monks · What happens: approach, report · To what, where: Teacher
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 (monks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monks | det |
| 2 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Teacher | det |
| 5 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reported | cc |
| 7 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 matter | mark |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reported | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reported | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the monks | the Teacher | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme | ||||
| 2 | report | past | the monks not said here | Teacher | matter ccomp | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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