The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 5
But few in number are those who entertain sentiments of compassion for the whole world and for all the living beings that are therein.”
Who acts: few, living beings · What happens: be, entertain · To what, where: those, sentiments
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, living beings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 few | cc |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 those | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 number | case |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 few | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | cop |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 entertain | nsubj |
| 8 | entertain | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | sentiments | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 entertain | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 compassion | case |
| 11 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentiments | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entertain | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beings | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 beings | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 beings | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beings | det |
| 20 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beings | amod |
| 21 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 world | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 therein | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 therein | cop |
| 24 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 21 beings | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 entertain | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | few in number | those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | entertain | present | sentiments of compassion | for the whole world and all living beings; who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sentiment=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | all living beings | therein property | 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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