The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 65
For men of old, through carelessness, not knowing what was the matter, ate poison, and as a result experienced great suffering.”
Who acts: matter · What happens: not know, be, eat · To what, where: matter, poison · 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 (matter), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 men | case |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 old | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carelessness | punct |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 carelessness | case |
| 7 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 old | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knowing | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knowing | advmod |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 old | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 matter | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | acl:relcl |
| 17 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ate | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffering | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 suffering | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 suffering | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 result | det |
| 22 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suffering | nsubj |
| 23 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 suffering | amod |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 suffering | amod |
| 25 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 old | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffering | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the matter | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | the matter not said here | poison | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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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