The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 148
Likewise did those disciples of heretical teachers salute the Teacher and sit down, close beside the merchant.
Who acts: disciples · What happens: be, salute, sit down, close · To what, where: Teacher, merchant
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disciples), 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 8 salute | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Likewise | cop |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 disciples | det |
| 4 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 salute | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 teachers | case |
| 6 | heretical | heretical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teachers | amod |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disciples | nmod |
| 8 | salute | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Teacher | det |
| 10 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 salute | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sit | cc |
| 12 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 salute | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sit | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 15 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sit | conj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 salute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | likewise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | salute | present | that disciples of heretical teachers | the Teacher | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit down | present | that disciples of heretical teachers not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | close | infinitive | that disciples of heretical teachers not said here | the merchant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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