The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 52
The Teacher, seeing wounded men lying here and there, asked those lay disciples: “Here are many men who are in a bad way.
Who acts: Teacher, wounded men, many men · What happens: see, lie, ask, be · To what, where: wounded men, lay disciples, many men, bad way · 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, wounded men, many men), 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 | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Teacher | acl |
| 5 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seeing | obj |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 men | acl |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 there | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 here | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Teacher | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 disciples | det |
| 14 | lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 disciples | amod |
| 15 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 18 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 “ | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 men | cop |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 way | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 way | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 26 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 way | amod |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 men | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Teacher not said here | wounded men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | wounded men not said here | here; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Teacher | that lay disciples | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disciple=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | many men | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | many men | a bad way | 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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