The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
“For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, such is said to have been the patience and gentleness.
Who acts: kings, rod · What happens: take, say, be · To what, where: rod, sword, patience · 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 (kings, rod), 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 | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 monks | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kings | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kings | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 kings | det |
| 8 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 monks | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kings | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rod | det |
| 12 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rod | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 said | ccomp |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sword | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 patience | mark |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 patience | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 patience | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 patience | det |
| 26 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gentleness | cc |
| 28 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 patience | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | this kings | the rod | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | the rod | the sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | the sword not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | the patience and gentleness | gentleness conj | tree rules |
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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