The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 97
He met with no one who said he had a fault, but heard mentioned only his own good qualities.
Who acts: place, one · What happens: meet, say, have, mention · To what, where: fault, own good qualities · 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 (place, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fault | det |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mentioned | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 mentioned | cc |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 15 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 met | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 qualities | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 qualities | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 qualities | amod |
| 20 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mentioned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | place | with no one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | place | a fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | past · passive | place not said here | place's own good qualities | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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