The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 4
How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, let your light so shine in this world as to be known of men as patient and gentle.”
Who acts: more monks, your · What happens: retire, teach, let, know, light · To what, where: world, more monks, light
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 (more monks, your), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 monks | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 you | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 monks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 retired | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 retired | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 retired | aux |
| 12 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 taught | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retired | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 Doctrine | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Doctrine | det |
| 18 | Doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retired | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Discipline | cc |
| 20 | Discipline | discipline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Doctrine | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 well | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 taught | advmod |
| 23 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 taught | xcomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 light | nmod:poss |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 shine | advmod |
| 29 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shine | nmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 known | mark |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 known | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 known | aux:pass |
| 36 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 let | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 men | case |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 known | obl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 patient | case |
| 40 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 known | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gentle | cc |
| 42 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 patient | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 taught | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | present · perfect | the world | under a Doctrine and Discipline; who nsubj | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | participle · passive | more monks you | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | more monks you not said here | your light | shine obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent light=Recipient shine=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive · passive | more monks you not said here | of men; as patient | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | light | your | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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