The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 94

Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present state of existence has this girl, with the thought in her mind, ‘I’ll kill the flies on my mother’s head!’ struck her mother with a pestle and killed her; in a previous state of existence also she killed her mother in the very same way.”

Who acts: Teacher, householder · What happens: say, have, kill, strike, mind · To what, where: girl, flies, head, mother, previous state · 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, householder), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 householder	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 householder	punct
6	Verily	verily	ADV	_	8 householder	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Verily	punct
8	householder	householder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 state	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 state	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 state	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 state	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 state	nmod:poss
14	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 state	amod
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 householder	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 existence	case
17	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 state	nmod
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 thought	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thought	det
24	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 girl	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mind	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mind	nmod:poss
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 kill	nsubj
31	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 has	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flies	det
34	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kill	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	39 head	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mother	nmod:poss
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 head	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 mother	case
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kill	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
42	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mother	nmod:poss
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 struck	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 pestle	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 pestle	det
47	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 struck	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 killed	cc
49	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 struck	conj
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 killed	obj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 killed	punct
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 state	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 state	det
54	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 state	amod
55	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 killed	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 existence	case
57	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 state	nmod
58	also	also	ADV	_	60 killed	advmod
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 killed	nsubj
60	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 mother	nmod:poss
62	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 killed	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	67 way	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 way	det
65	very	very	ADV	_	66 same	advmod
66	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 way	amod
67	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 killed	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
69	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the Teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	householder	this girl and the thought in householder's mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	kill in a quote	future	the Teacher = teacher	the flies	my mother's head		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
4	strike in a quote	past	the Teacher not said here	householder's mother		with a pestle	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mother=Patient with pestle=Instrument
5	kill in a quote	past	the Teacher not said here	mother			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	kill in a quote	past	householder	householder's mother	a previous state of existence	in the same way	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
7	mind in a quote		householder				nom mind «cognition 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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 94