The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 153
Thus, with this stanza, did that wise man censure the leader of the monkeys.
What happens: do · To what, where: man censure
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 stanza | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stanza | det |
| 5 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stanza | punct |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 censure | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 censure | compound |
| 11 | censure | censure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leader | det |
| 13 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 monkeys | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monkeys | det |
| 16 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leader | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | that man censure | with this stanza; the leader of the monkeys obj; thus property | 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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