The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 27

When the Teacher had related this Story of the Past, he said: “Thus, monks, even animals, when they walk in forbidden ground, fall into the hands of their adversaries; but when they walk in their own ground, in the region of their fathers, they humble their adversaries.

Who acts: Teacher, monks · What happens: relate, say, walk, fall, humble · To what, where: Story, forbidden ground, hands, own ground, adversaries · 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 (Teacher, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 related	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 related	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 related	aux
5	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Story	det
7	Story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Past	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Past	det
10	Past	Past	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Story	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 related	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 monks	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 monks	punct
16	Thus	thus	ADV	_	18 monks	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Thus	punct
18	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 walk	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 animals	punct
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 animals	advmod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 monks	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walk	punct
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 walk	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 walk	nsubj
25	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ground	amod
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walk	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 walk	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hands	det
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fall	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 adversaries	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 adversaries	nmod:poss
36	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hands	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 humble	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 humble	cc
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 walk	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 walk	nsubj
41	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 humble	advcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 ground	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ground	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ground	amod
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walk	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 region	punct
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 region	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 region	det
49	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walk	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 fathers	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 fathers	nmod:poss
52	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 region	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 walk	punct
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 humble	nsubj
55	humble	humble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 adversaries	nmod:poss
57	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 humble	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	past · perfect	the Teacher	this Story of the Past			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk in a quote	present	monks and animals		forbidden ground		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory
4	fall in a quote	infinitive	monks and animals not said here			into the hands of monks's adversaries result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
5	walk in a quote	present	monks = monk		monks's own ground	in the region of monks's fathers	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory
6	humble in a quote	present	monks = monk	monks's adversaries			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus adversary=Experiencer

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 27

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 27