The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 95
Then said the Exalted One to those monks: “Monks, be united; do not wrangle.
What happens: say, exalt, be, not wrangle · To what, where: Monks, One · 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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Exalted | det |
| 4 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Exalted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 monks | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 monks | det |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 One | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Monks | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Monks | punct |
| 11 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 united | punct |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 united | cop |
| 14 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Monks | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrangle | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 wrangle | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wrangle | advmod |
| 18 | wrangle | wrangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Monks | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exalt | participle | One | to that monks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | united property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not wrangle in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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