The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 153
“Monk,” said the Teacher, “in former times wise men exerted themselves on an occasion when it was necessary for them to exert themselves, and by so doing attained the glory of dominion.”
Who acts: Monk, wise men, monks, dominion · What happens: say, exert, be, attain, glory · To what, where: monks, occasion, glory · 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 (Monk, wise men, monks, dominion), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monk | punct |
| 2 | Monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monk | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monk | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Teacher | det |
| 7 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exerted | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 exerted | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exerted | obl |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exerted | nsubj |
| 15 | exerted | exert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 exerted | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 occasion | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 occasion | det |
| 19 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exerted | obl |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 necessary | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 necessary | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 necessary | cop |
| 23 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 exerted | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 exert | mark |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 exert | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 exert | mark |
| 27 | exert | exert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 necessary | csubj |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 exert | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 attained | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 attained | cc |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 34 attained | mark |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 attained | advmod |
| 33 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 attained | aux:pass |
| 34 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 glory | det |
| 36 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 attained | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 dominion | case |
| 38 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 glory | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 attained | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Monk | the Teacher nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exert in a quote | past | wise men | monks = monk | a occasion | time | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | wise men not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | exert in a quote | to-infinitive | monks = monk | monks = monk | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attain in a quote | gerund · do-support | the glory of dominion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: glory=Theme | |||||
| 6 | glory in a quote | dominion | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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