The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 43
_ This parable was related by the Teacher while he was journeying from place to place in the country of the Magadhas, in a certain little village, with reference to some foolish villagers.
Who acts: Teacher · What happens: relate, journey · To what, where: parable, place
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), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 parable | det |
| 3 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | aux:pass |
| 5 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Teacher | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Teacher | det |
| 8 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 journeying | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 journeying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 journeying | aux |
| 12 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 related | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journeying | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journeying | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Magadhas | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Magadhas | det |
| 22 | Magadhas | Magadhas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 country | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 village | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 village | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 village | det |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 village | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 village | amod |
| 28 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journeying | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reference | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 reference | case |
| 31 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 village | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 villagers | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 villagers | det |
| 34 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 villagers | amod |
| 35 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 journeying | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past · passive | the Teacher | this parable | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | journey | past · progressive | Teacher | place | to place in the country of the Magadhas; in a certain little village and reference; to some foolish villagers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
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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