The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
But the state elephant, the king’s friend, does not know that the king is dead, that his son is born, and that the king of Kosala has come to fight.”
Who acts: state elephant, king · What happens: not know, be, bear, come, fight · To what, where: son
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 (state elephant, king), 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 | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | compound |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 elephant | punct |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 know | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 born | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 born | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 know | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 come | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Kosala | case |
| 31 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 king | nmod |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 born | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 fight | mark |
| 35 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 come | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | the state elephant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the king | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | present · passive | king's son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | the king of Kosala | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | the king of Kosala not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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