The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 36
The Teacher, having proclaimed the Truths by the narration of this fable, identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the hawk was Devadatta, but the quail was I myself.”
Who acts: Teacher, Birth story, hawk, quail · What happens: proclaim, identify, follow, be, narrate · To what, where: Teacher, personages, Birth story, Devadatta, quail, fable · 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, Birth story, hawk, quail), 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 Teacher | det |
| 2 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identified | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 proclaimed | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 proclaimed | aux |
| 5 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Teacher | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Truths | det |
| 7 | Truths | Truth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 proclaimed | obl:agent |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 narration | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 narration | det |
| 10 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proclaimed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fable | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fable | det |
| 13 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 narration | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Teacher | punct |
| 15 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 personages | det |
| 17 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 identified | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 20 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 story | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Birth | punct |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identified | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 follows | mark |
| 24 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 story | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Devadatta | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Devadatta | punct |
| 27 | At | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Devadatta | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hawk | det |
| 31 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Devadatta | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Devadatta | cop |
| 33 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 identified | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 myself | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 myself | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 quail | det |
| 37 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 myself | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 myself | cop |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 myself | nsubj |
| 40 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 Devadatta | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 Devadatta | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 identified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | gerund · perfect | the Teacher not said here | by the narration of this fable; the Truths obl:agent | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | identify | past | the Teacher | the personages | the Birth story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent personage=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 3 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the hawk | Devadatta | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | the quail | the quail = quail | I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | narrate | this fable | nom narration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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