The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 126
And proclaiming, as though they were good qualities, only the faults of his own king, he uttered the first stanza:
Who acts: king, men · What happens: proclaim, be, utter, fault · To what, where: first stanza, own king
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, men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 proclaiming | cc |
| 2 | proclaiming | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 uttered | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 qualities | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 qualities | case |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 qualities | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 qualities | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 qualities | cop |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 qualities | amod |
| 9 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 proclaiming | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 faults | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 faults | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 faults | det |
| 13 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 qualities | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 king | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 king | amod |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 faults | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 proclaiming | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 uttered | nsubj |
| 20 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stanza | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 stanza | amod |
| 23 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 uttered | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | gerund | king not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | men = man | as good qualities; the faults of king's own king appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | king | the first stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fault | king's own king | nom fault «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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