The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 151
For, addressing that monk, the Teacher asked: “Monk, is it true, as they allege, that you have relaxed effort?”
Who acts: Teacher, Monk, monks, you · What happens: address, ask, be, allege, have · To what, where: relaxed effort · 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 (Teacher, Monk, monks, you), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 addressing | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressing | punct |
| 3 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 monk | mark |
| 5 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressing | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Teacher | det |
| 8 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 true | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 true | punct |
| 12 | Monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 true | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Monk | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 true | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 true | nsubj |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allege | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 allege | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allege | nsubj |
| 20 | allege | allege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 allege | conj |
| 25 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 effort | amod |
| 26 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | gerund | the Teacher not said here | monk advcl | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Monk | parable nsubj; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | allege speech: other in a quote | present | monks = monk | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | you | relaxed effort | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=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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