The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 127
Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what did your father mean by that?”
Who acts: love · What happens: quench, do, mean · To what, where: hatreds, father
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 9 quenched | discourse |
| 2 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 Dīghāvu | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rather | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Dīghāvu | amod |
| 5 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nay | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 7 | hatreds | hatred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 quenched | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 quenched | aux:pass |
| 9 | quenched | quench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quenched | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quenched | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 quenched | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quenched | parataxis |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obj |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 mean | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quench | present · passive | love | hatreds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | your father | what nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | by that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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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