The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 38
Thus, as an honest dicer (23 _b_), he violates Buddhist teaching by administering deadly poison to his companion, a dishonest dicer.
Who acts: attempt, Buddhist teaching · What happens: violate, administer · To what, where: Buddhist teaching, deadly poison, companion
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attempt, Buddhist teaching), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 violates | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 dicer | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dicer | det |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dicer | amod |
| 6 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 violates | obl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 23 | punct |
| 8 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 dicer | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | SYM | _ | 10 b | punct |
| 10 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 b | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 23 | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dicer | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 violates | nsubj |
| 15 | violates | violate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 teaching | amod |
| 17 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 violates | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 administering | mark |
| 19 | administering | administer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 teaching | acl |
| 20 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 poison | amod |
| 21 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 administering | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 companion | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companion | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 administering | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dicer | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dicer | det |
| 27 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dicer | amod |
| 28 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teaching | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 violates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | violate | present | attempt | Buddhist teaching and a dishonest dicer | as a honest dicer; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | administer | gerund | Buddhist teaching and a dishonest dicer not said here | deadly poison | attempt's companion | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent poison=Theme to companion=Recipient |
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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