The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
When that wicked man thus entered the earth, the tree-spirit resident in that forest-grove thought: “An ungrateful man, a man who will betray his friends, cannot be satisfied, even if he be given the kingdom of a Universal Monarch.”
Who acts: wicked man, man · What happens: enter, betray, not be, give · To what, where: earth, friends, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked man, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 entered | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 entered | advmod |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resident | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 resident | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resident | compound |
| 14 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 earth | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 thought | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thought | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grove | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 forest | punct |
| 19 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | compound |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resident | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 23 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | appos |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 betray | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 betray | aux |
| 31 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 man | acl:relcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 friends | nmod:poss |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 betray | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 satisfied | punct |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 satisfied | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 satisfied | advmod |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 satisfied | cop |
| 38 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 given | punct |
| 40 | even | even | ADV | _ | 44 given | advmod |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 given | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 given | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 given | aux:pass |
| 44 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 satisfied | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 kingdom | det |
| 46 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 given | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Monarch | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 Monarch | det |
| 49 | Universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 Monarch | amod |
| 50 | Monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kingdom | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 resident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | that wicked man | the earth | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | betray in a quote | future | a man | man's friends | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | can | satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive · passive | man | the kingdom of a Universal Monarch obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient kingdom=Theme |
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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