The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
Thought he: “It is not fitting that that man should die in sight of an ascetic like me, endowed with friendliness and compassion.
Who acts: sound, man · What happens: think, not fit, die, endow, sight · To what, where: Buddha, ascetic · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sound, man), 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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Thought | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fitting | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fitting | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fitting | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fitting | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fitting | advmod |
| 8 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Thought | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fitting | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ascetic | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ascetic | det |
| 18 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 die | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 endowed | punct |
| 22 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fitting | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 friendliness | case |
| 24 | friendliness | friendliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 endowed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 compassion | cc |
| 26 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 friendliness | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Buddha | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not fit in a quote | present · progressive | sound | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | should | that man | like me; in sight of a ascetic | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sight=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | endow in a quote | participle | sound not said here | with friendliness and compassion | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with friendliness=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight in a quote | a ascetic | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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