The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 156
But men who laid hold of Truth absolute, certain, consistent, obtained safety in that very wilderness.”
Who acts: men · What happens: lay, obtain, hold · To what, where: hold, absolute obtained safety, Truth
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 laid | cc |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 absolute | advcl |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Truth | case |
| 7 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nmod |
| 8 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 safety | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 certain | punct |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 absolute | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 consistent | punct |
| 12 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 absolute | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obtained | punct |
| 14 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 safety | amod |
| 15 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wilderness | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 wilderness | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wilderness | advmod |
| 19 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 safety | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 safety | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 safety | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | men | hold of Truth | who nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 2 | obtain | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | hold | Truth | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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