The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
Said he: “Monks, careless handling of property is like careless handling of deadly poison.
Who acts: man, Monks · What happens: say, be, handle · To what, where: property · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, Monks), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 handling | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 handling | punct |
| 5 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 handling | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 handling | punct |
| 7 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 handling | amod |
| 8 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Monks | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 property | case |
| 10 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handling | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 handling | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 handling | case |
| 13 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 handling | amod |
| 14 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 poison | case |
| 16 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 poison | amod |
| 17 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handling | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Monks and careless handling of property | like careless handling; of deadly poison | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | handle in a quote | property | nom handling «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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