The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 63
On a certain occasion the Exalted One reproved the monks for handling their property carelessly.
Who acts: Exalted One · What happens: exalt, reprove, handle · To what, where: monks, certain occasion, property
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 (Exalted One), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasion | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 occasion | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occasion | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reproved | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 One | det |
| 6 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 One | amod |
| 7 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reproved | nsubj |
| 8 | reproved | reprove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monks | det |
| 10 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reproved | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 handling | mark |
| 12 | handling | handle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reproved | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 property | nmod:poss |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 handling | obj |
| 15 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 12 handling | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reproved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reprove | past | the Exalted One | the monks | a certain occasion | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Theme | |||
| 3 | handle | gerund | the Exalted One not said here | Monks's property | carelessly property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |
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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