The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 127
Knowing this, a wise man should lay hold on Absolute Truth.
Who acts: wise man · What happens: know, lay, hold · To what, where: this, Absolute Truth
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 (wise man), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lay | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | aux |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lay | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Truth | case |
| 11 | Absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Truth | amod |
| 12 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | a wise man not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lay | should | a wise man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | a wise man not said here | Absolute Truth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on truth=Location |
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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