The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 76
As for the carpenter, his kinsfolk did their duty by his body.
Who acts: kinsfolk · What happens: do · To what, where: duty
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 (kinsfolk), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 carpenter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carpenter | det |
| 4 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carpenter | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 duty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Buddha's kinsfolk | carpenters's duty | as the carpenter; by Buddha's body | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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