The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 20
Having completed the parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the man who betrayed his friend was Devadatta, the tree-spirit was one of my disciples, but Good King Elephant was I myself.”
Who acts: Teacher, Birth story, man, Devadatta, Elephant · What happens: have, complete, identify, follow, betray, be · To what, where: parable, personages, Birth story, friend, Devadatta, one
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 (Teacher, Birth story, man, Devadatta), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 identified | advcl |
| 2 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parable | det |
| 4 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 completed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 identified | nsubj |
| 7 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 personages | det |
| 9 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 identified | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 12 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Birth | punct |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identified | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 follows | mark |
| 16 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 one | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 one | punct |
| 19 | At | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Devadatta | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Devadatta | nsubj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 betrayed | nsubj |
| 25 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 betrayed | obj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Devadatta | cop |
| 29 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 one | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spirit | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spirit | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spirit | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 tree | punct |
| 34 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Devadatta | appos |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 one | cop |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 identified | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 disciples | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 disciples | nmod:poss |
| 39 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 one | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 myself | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 myself | cc |
| 42 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 King | compound |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Elephant | nmod:desc |
| 44 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 myself | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 myself | cop |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 myself | nsubj |
| 47 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 identified | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 identified | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 identified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Teacher not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | complete | participle | Teacher not said here | the parable | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | identify | past | Teacher | the personages | the Birth story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | |||
| 4 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | betray in a quote | past | the man | Teacher's friend | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | the man | Devadatta | time | the tree spirit appos | tree rules | ||
| 7 | is a in a quote | past | Devadatta | one | of my disciples | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is a in a quote | past | Elephant Good King | the Teacher = teacher | I nsubj | tree rules |
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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