The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 66
Story 10, _Vedabbha and the thieves_, is the original of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale; compare also A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 19.
Who acts: Story · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: original, A. Schiefner
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 (Story), 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 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 original | nsubj |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Story | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vedabbha | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vedabbha | punct |
| 5 | Vedabbha | Vedabbha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Story | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thieves | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thieves | det |
| 8 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Vedabbha | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vedabbha | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Story | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 original | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 original | det |
| 13 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tale | case |
| 15 | Chaucer | Chaucer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pardoner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Chaucer | case |
| 17 | Pardoner | Pardoner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tale | compound |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Pardoner | case |
| 19 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 original | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 compare | punct |
| 21 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 original | parataxis |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 Schiefner | advmod |
| 23 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Schiefner | compound |
| 24 | Schiefner | Schiefner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 compare | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tales | punct |
| 26 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tales | compound |
| 27 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Schiefner | nmod |
| 28 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Tales | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 original | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Story | the original | of Pardoner Tale | tree rules | |||
| 2 | compare | infinitive | A. Schiefner Tibetan Tales | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schiefner=Patient |
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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