The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 97
The monks, seated in the Hall of Truth, were saying: “Brethren, Devadatta the ungrateful knows not the virtues of the Teacher.”
Who acts: monks, Brethren · What happens: seat, say, not know · To what, where: monks, Hall, virtues · 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 (monks, Brethren), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monks | det |
| 2 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 monks | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hall | det |
| 7 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Truth | case |
| 9 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hall | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 monks | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | aux |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brethren | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brethren | punct |
| 15 | Brethren | Brethren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Devadatta | punct |
| 17 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brethren | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ungrateful | det |
| 19 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Brethren | appos |
| 20 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 knows | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 virtues | det |
| 23 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 knows | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Teacher | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Teacher | det |
| 26 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 virtues | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | the monks not said here | the Hall of Truth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | the monks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present | Brethren and Devadatta | the virtues of the Teacher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer virtue=Stimulus |
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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