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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 133

Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what he meant to have me understand was this: Your majesty has killed my mother and father.

Who acts: love, father, me · What happens: quench, mean, have, understand, be, kill · To what, where: hatreds, me, this, majesty

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, father, me), 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

discourseadvmodpunctamodvocativepunctnsubjaux:passcaseoblpunctpunctobjnsubjparataxismarkxcompobjxcompcopobjpunctnmod:possnsubj:passauxconjnmod:possobjccconjpunctrootNayINTJratherADV,PUNCTdearADJDīghāvuPROPN,PUNCThatredsNOUNareAUXquenchedVERBbyADPloveNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTwhatPRONhePRONmeantVERBtoPARThaveVERBmePRONunderstandVERBwasAUXthisPRON:PUNCTYourPRONmajestyNOUNhasAUXkilledVERBmyPRONmotherNOUNandCCONJfatherNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NaynayINTJ_9 quencheddiscourse
2ratherratherADV_5 Dīghāvuadvmod
3,,PUNCT_2 ratherpunct
4deardearADJDegree=Pos5 Dīghāvuamod
5DīghāvuDīghāvuPROPNNumber=Sing1 Nayvocative
6,,PUNCT_1 Naypunct
7hatredshatredNOUNNumber=Plur9 quenchednsubj
8arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 quenchedaux:pass
9quenchedquenchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10bybyADP_11 lovecase
11loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing9 quenchedobl
12,,PUNCT_9 quenchedpunct
13’'PUNCT_9 quenchedpunct
14whatwhatPRONPronType=Int16 meantobj
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 meantnsubj
16meantmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 quenchedparataxis
17totoPART_18 havemark
18havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf16 meantxcomp
19meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 haveobj
20understandunderstandVERBVerbForm=Inf18 havexcomp
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 thiscop
22thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 understandobj
23::PUNCT_27 killedpunct
24YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 majestynmod:poss
25majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing27 killednsubj:pass
26hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 killedaux
27killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 quenchedconj
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 mothernmod:poss
29mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing27 killedobj
30andandCCONJ_31 fathercc
31fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing29 motherconj
32..PUNCT_9 quenchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1quenchpresent · passivelovehatredsvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2meanpastfatherwhat objtree rules
3have not said to happento-infinitivefather not said heremetree rules
4understandinfinitiveme not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5is apastthistree rules
6killpresent · perfect · passiveYour majestymy mother and father objvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer mother=Result

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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