The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 152
A man who lacks intelligence spoils what is good Like the monkey who worked in the garden.
Who acts: man, monkey · What happens: lack, spoil, be, work · To what, where: intelligence
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 (man, monkey), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoils | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lacks | nsubj |
| 4 | lacks | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lacks | obj |
| 6 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 good | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spoils | ccomp |
| 10 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 12 monkey | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monkey | det |
| 12 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 good | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lack | present | a man | intelligence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spoil | present | a man | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | like the monkey; what nsubj; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | past | the monkey | in the garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme |
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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