The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 125
And having thus joined the two parts of this Parable of Absolute Truth, he, the Supremely Enlightened, uttered the following stanza:
Who acts: having, Absolute · What happens: have, join, utter, follow · To what, where: two parts, stanza
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (having, Absolute), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 joined | cc |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 joined | csubj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 having | advmod |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parts | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 parts | nummod |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 joined | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Parable | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Parable | det |
| 10 | Parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parts | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Truth | case |
| 12 | Absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Truth | amod |
| 13 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Parable | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 uttered | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 uttered | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 uttered | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Enlightened | det |
| 18 | Supremely | Supremely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Enlightened | compound |
| 19 | Enlightened | Enlightened | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 uttered | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Enlightened | punct |
| 21 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joined | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stanza | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 stanza | case |
| 24 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 uttered | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | join | past | having | the two parts of this Parable of Absolute Truth | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | Absolute | the stanza | the Supremely Enlightened nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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