The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 77
Said the Teacher: “Great king, to decide litigations righteously and justly is a good thing.
Who acts: Teacher, Great king · What happens: say, decide, be · To what, where: litigations, good thing · 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, Great king), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 decide | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 decide | mark |
| 10 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | litigations | litigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 decide | obj |
| 12 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 10 decide | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 justly | cc |
| 14 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 12 righteously | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | decide in a quote | to-infinitive | Great king not said here | litigations | righteously property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent litigation=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Great king | a good thing | 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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