The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 43
Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love’?”
Who acts: love · What happens: quench · To what, where: hatreds
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 | root | root |
| 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 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quenched | 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 |
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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