The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 5
_ This stanza was recited by the Teacher while in residence at Jetavana to explain his own meaning in the Parable of the Bird.
Who acts: Teacher, Jetavana · What happens: recite, explain, mean · To what, where: stanza, own meaning, Parable
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, Jetavana), 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 recited | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 stanza | det |
| 3 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recited | aux:pass |
| 5 | recited | recite | 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recited | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 residence | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 residence | case |
| 11 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recited | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Jetavana | case |
| 13 | Jetavana | Jetavana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 residence | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explain | mark |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 recited | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meaning | amod |
| 18 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explain | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Parable | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Parable | det |
| 21 | Parable | Parable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 explain | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Bird | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bird | det |
| 24 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Parable | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past · passive | the Teacher | this stanza | residence at Jetavana advcl | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Teacher not said here | Jetavana's own meaning | the Parable of the Bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | |||
| 3 | mean | Jetavana | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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