The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 112
“Monks,” said the Teacher, “not only in his present state of existence has Devadatta gone about for the purpose of killing me; in a previous state of existence also he went about for the purpose of killing me in the very same way.”
Who acts: Monks, Teacher, purpose, Devadatta · What happens: say, go about, kill · To what, where: present state, Monks, previous state, same way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Monks, Teacher, purpose, Devadatta), 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 | _ | 2 Monks | punct |
| 2 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monks | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monks | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Teacher | det |
| 7 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 state | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 state | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 state | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 state | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 state | nmod:poss |
| 14 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | amod |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 existence | case |
| 17 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obl |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 19 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 gone | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 purpose | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 purpose | det |
| 24 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 killing | mark |
| 26 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 purpose | acl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 killing | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 state | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 state | det |
| 31 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 state | amod |
| 32 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 existence | case |
| 34 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 state | nmod |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 purpose | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 purpose | det |
| 41 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 killing | mark |
| 43 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 purpose | acl |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 killing | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 way | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 way | det |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 same | advmod |
| 48 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 way | amod |
| 49 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 killing | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Monks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go about in a quote | present · perfect | the Teacher | Teacher's present state | for the purpose; Devadatta nsubj; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | kill in a quote | gerund | the purpose not said here | Monks = monk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go about in a quote | past | Devadatta | a previous state of existence | for the purpose; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | kill in a quote | gerund | the purpose not said here | Monks = monk | the same way | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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