The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 138
“I, sir, am a poor man, a pauper, unable to make a living.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: be, make · To what, where: poor man, living
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha), 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 | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 I | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pauper | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pauper | det |
| 12 | pauper | pauper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unable | punct |
| 14 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unable | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 living | det |
| 18 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Buddha | a poor man and a pauper | a pauper conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | Buddha not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | a living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
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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