The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 90
Then he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the wise dicer was I myself.”
Who acts: Teacher, Birth story, wise dicer · What happens: identify, follow, be · To what, where: personages, Birth story, Teacher
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, Birth story, wise dicer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 identified | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 identified | nsubj |
| 3 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 personages | det |
| 5 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 identified | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 8 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Birth | punct |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 identified | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 follows | mark |
| 12 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | At | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 identified | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dicer | det |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dicer | amod |
| 20 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 I | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 I | cop |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 time | conj |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 I | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | past | Teacher | the personages | the Birth story | then; time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | ||
| 2 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the wise dicer | Teacher | myself obl:unmarked | tree rules |
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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