The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 26
Hearing that the monks of Kosambi were quarreling, the Exalted One went to them and said: “Enough, monks!
Who acts: Exalted One, monks · What happens: hear, quarrel, exalt, go, say · To what, where: Monks · 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 (Exalted One, monks), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 quarreling | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monks | det |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quarreling | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kosambi | case |
| 6 | Kosambi | Kosambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 monks | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 quarreling | aux |
| 8 | quarreling | quarrel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hearing | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 One | det |
| 11 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 One | amod |
| 12 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Enough | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Enough | punct |
| 20 | Enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 monks | punct |
| 22 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Exalted One not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | quarrel | past · progressive | the monks of Kosambi | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | the Exalted One | Monks = monk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Exalted One not said here | monks | enough property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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