The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 123
Then he thought: “I will make room for that king who is more advanced in the practice of morality.”
Who acts: king · What happens: think, make, be, practice · To what, where: room, practice, morality · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 advanced | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 advanced | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 advanced | advmod |
| 16 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 practice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 practice | det |
| 19 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advanced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 morality | case |
| 21 | morality | morality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 practice | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | king | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | king | room | for that king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for king=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that king | the practice of morality | advanced property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | practice in a quote | morality | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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