The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 6
For one day the Teacher addressed the monks: “Walk, monks, in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers.”
Who acts: Teacher · What happens: address, walk · To what, where: monks, lawful ground
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 addressed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Teacher | det |
| 5 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 addressed | nsubj |
| 6 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monks | det |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 addressed | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Walk | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Walk | punct |
| 11 | Walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 addressed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 monks | punct |
| 13 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Walk | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ground | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ground | amod |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Walk | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 region | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 region | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 region | det |
| 21 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Walk | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fathers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fathers | det |
| 24 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 region | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Walk | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the Teacher | the monks | day | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk in a quote | infinitive | the Teacher not said here | monks | lawful ground | the region of the fathers parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory |
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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