The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 98

The Teacher drew near and asked: “Monks, what is the subject that engages your attention now, as you sit here all gathered together?”

Who acts: Teacher, Monks, subject, your · What happens: draw, ask, be, engage, sit, gather · To what, where: Monks, subject, attention · 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 (Teacher, Monks, subject, your), 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 Teacher	det
2	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asked	cc
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Monks	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Monks	punct
9	Monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 subject	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 subject	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 subject	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 subject	det
14	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Monks	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 engages	nsubj
16	engages	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 subject	acl:relcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 attention	nmod:poss
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 engages	obj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 engages	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 sit	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sit	nsubj
23	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sit	advmod
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sit	advcl
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the Teacher					near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Teacher not said here		Monks				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Monks	the subject					tree rules
4	engage in a quote	present	the subject	your attention			now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
5	sit in a quote	present	Monks = monk			here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	gather in a quote	participle	Monks = monk not said here					all, together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	attend in a quote		your						nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 98

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 98