The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 109
_ This parable was related by the Teacher while he was in residence at Bamboo Grove with reference to Devadatta’s going about for the purpose of killing him.
Who acts: Teacher, parable, purpose · What happens: relate, be, go about, kill · To what, where: parable, residence
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, parable, purpose), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 parable | det |
| 3 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | aux:pass |
| 5 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Teacher | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Teacher | det |
| 8 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 residence | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 residence | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 residence | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 residence | case |
| 13 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Grove | case |
| 15 | Bamboo | Bamboo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Grove | compound |
| 16 | Grove | Grove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 residence | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 reference | case |
| 18 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 residence | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 20 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 going | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Devadatta | case |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 related | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 purpose | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 purpose | det |
| 26 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 killing | mark |
| 28 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 purpose | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 killing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past · passive | the Teacher | this parable | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | parable | residence | at Bamboo Grove; with reference | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go about | gerund | the Teacher not said here | for the purpose; Devadatta nmod:poss; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | gerund | the purpose not said here | parable | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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