The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 7
_ This parable was related by the Teacher in the South Mountain region with reference to a certain gardener’s son.
Who acts: Teacher · What happens: relate · To what, where: parable, Mountain region
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 (Teacher), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 parable | det |
| 3 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | aux:pass |
| 5 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Teacher | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Teacher | det |
| 8 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 region | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 region | det |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mountain | compound |
| 12 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 region | compound |
| 13 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 reference | case |
| 15 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 region | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gardener | det |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gardener | amod |
| 19 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 gardener | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 region | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past · passive | the Teacher | this parable | in the Mountain region with reference to a certain gardener's son goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in region=Goal |
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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