The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 144
Thought he: “My teacher disregarded my words and is dead.”
Who acts: teacher, my · What happens: think, disregard, be, word · To what, where: Buddha, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher, my), 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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Thought | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 disregarded | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 disregarded | punct |
| 5 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disregarded | nsubj |
| 7 | disregarded | disregard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thought | parataxis |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disregarded | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dead | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 disregarded | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Buddha | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disregard in a quote | past | My teacher | my words | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | My teacher not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication 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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